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CHART XVIII. Chart of Central Events in the Ancient Near East
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Aegean and Greece
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Egypt
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Asia Minor
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Syria and Palestine
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Assyria
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Babylonia
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Iran
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| 2800 |
Egyptian writing |
Early Bronze Walled Cities |
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Cuneiform writing |
2800 |
| 2600 |
Old Kingdom Pyraminds |
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Early city states |
2600 |
| 2400 |
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2400 |
| 2200 |
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Sargon of Agade |
2200 |
| 2000 |
First Intermediate Period |
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Middle Bronze |
Under Babylon |
Amorite invasions |
Under Babylon 2000 |
| 1900 |
Middle Kingdom |
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Lipit-Ishtar |
1900 |
| 1800 |
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Assyrian trade colonies founded |
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Commercial expansion |
Rise of Babylon |
Old Elamite Kingdom 1800 |
| Minoan Linear A 1700 |
Hyksos |
Old Hittite Kingdom |
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Hammurabi Cassite Invasions |
1700 |
| 1600 |
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1600 |
| 1500 |
New Kingdom |
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Hittites sack Babylon |
1500 |
| Minoan Linear B 1400 |
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Mitanni Kingdom |
Nuzi |
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1400 |
| 1300 |
Amarna Period: Akhenaten
The Exodus |
New Hittite Empire |
Ugarit 'Apiru |
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1300 |
| 1200 |
Rameses II |
Hittite hieroglyphic writing |
Hebrew conquest |
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1200 |
| Trojan War 1100 |
XX Dynasty |
Sea Peoples |
Philistines
Judges |
Tiglath Pileser I |
Nebuchad- rezzar I |
1100 |
| Dorian invasion 1000 |
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Saul |
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1000 |
| Greek alphabet 900 |
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David
Solomon
Kingdom divides |
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Assyrian domination |
900 |
| 800 |
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Israel and Judah |
Ashurnasir- pal II |
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800 |
| Homer 700 |
Ethiopian domination |
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Fall of Samaria |
Sargon II |
Merodach- Baladan II |
700 |
| 600 |
Assyrian invasion |
King Gyges of Lydia |
Hezekiah |
Sennacherib
Ashurbanipal
Fall of Nineveh |
Assyrian domination
Chaldean Dynasty |
Medes
Rise of Achaemenids
600 |
| Solon 500 |
Persian conquest |
Cyrus defeats King Croecus of Lydia |
Fall of Jerusalem
Babylonian Captivity
Return to Judah |
Persian domination
Cyrus rules |
Nebuchad- rezzar II
Nabonidus
Persian capture of Babylon |
Cyrus
Darius I
500 |
| Persian Wars Age of Pericles 400 |
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Rebuilding Judah Nehemiah, Ezra |
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Xerxes I
400 |
| Alexander 300 |
Alexander
Ptolemies |
Alexander
Seleucids |
Alexander
Seleucids- Ptolemies |
Alexander
Seleucids |
Alexander
Seleucids |
Alexander
300 |
| 200 |
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200 |
| Roman domination 100 |
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Seleucids forced out of Asia Minor |
Maccabees |
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Parthians capture Babylon |
100 |
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Roman province |
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Seleucids collapse
Pompey takes Jerusalem
Judea formed |
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