AISG HS review

Farmers, herders, traders (located near water), craftsman.

• 2800 B.C.E. trade started. Flourished the civilization
• 2600 - 1900 Indus script –> culture
• 2600 B.C. two major walled sections were constructed
• 2000 B.C.E. The great bath was constructed
• 1900 B.C. collapse

Leaders not well known

Focused mainly on the creative aspect of their culture
Byblos : biggest city of the Phoenicians
* 1750 BCE
* The founding of Tyre, Phoenicia's first city
* 1020 BCE
* Abibal, the first king of Tyre
* 854 BCE
* The Phoenicians were conquered by the Assyrians
* 201 BCE
* Phoenicians under Roman rule
* 1516 AD
* The Turks capture Phoenicia and it was destroyed.

2100 BC Hebrew patriarch
Abraham migrates from Ur

1200 BC traditional date for exodus
From Egypt of Israelite under moses

1131 BC - Israelite in Canaan (Palestine)

1050 BC - Philistines pressure Israel

1050 BC - Saul, king of Israel leads successful revolt against Philistines

1010 BC - David succeeds Saul captures Jerusalem and makes it capital.

928 BC - Reign of Rehoboam: Division of kingdom of Israel into Kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

722 BC - Kingdom of Israel destroyed by assyria

586 BC - Judah conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia; Destruction of first temple; Jewish exiled in Babylonia

539 BC - Jews from Babylonia return to Judah.

444 BC - It is decided that the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) may never be added to or changed in any way.

Indo - Europeans
Brought iron.

2000 BCE

• Hittites moved into Cappadocia in present day Turkey

1600 - 1500 BCE

• The Hittites, from Caspian low lands settled in Anatolia and created the kingdom of Hittites in 1600 BCE. The Hittites took over all foreign trading posts in the area and quickly overtook Babylon.

• Becomes most powerful around 1500 BCE.

• The Hittite kingdom was not destroyed during a civil war in the 1500 BCE.

1500 BCE

• They found a way to obtain iron ore from the ground to make weapons and tools. Since this gave them an advantage, the hittites kept this as a secret for a long period of time.

1450 - 1300 BCE

• The Hittites reached it climax

• Conquered North and East territory of Babylon

  • Including Turkey and northern Palestine.

• They constructed a mythology with state pantheon.

1193 BCE

• The HIttite Empire fell to the "Sea People", a group of aggressive unknown invaders.

  • Hiatuses Capital of Hittite.

Shamshi - Adad 1 brought Assyria power

Achievements
* Dominant the trade roots and farm land
* Dominated Mesopotamia
* The great library of Nineveh.

1800 BCE

• Shamshi-adad I makes Assyria into the strongest power in Northern Mesopotamia

587 BCE

• Babylonian captivity

665 BCE

• Assyrian and destroyed the capital of ancient Egypt, Thebes

612 BCE

• Assyrian amy defeated by a joint attack of the Medes and Babylonians

600 BCE

• Fall of the city of Harran. Final collapse and end of Assyria.

First Egyptian pharaoh that united upper and lower Egypt.

Created the code of Hammurabi

War like ruler that led over 17 military campaigns. Conquered Syria, Palestine and pushed south towards Nubia.

Regent of a son
Declared himself the ruler (king; female pharaoh [Mat]). (women are treated better in Egypt comparing to other civilizations)
Launch people towards to south towards Punt.

Mummified in the valley of the kings