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2 systems of writing developed in the ancient Near East
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Biblical Period/Old Testament Period
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Solomon dies/Kingdom of Israel Splits
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Pygmalion founds Carthage
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Assyrians conquer Israel & force the inhabitants into exile, where they assimilate & become the 10 Lost Tribes
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Assyrians invade Judah but can't take Jerusalem
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Assyrian Empire falls to Babylon
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coinage invented in Asia Minor
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Jerusalem falls to Babylonia; Solomon's Temple is burned; Judeans exiled to Babylon; Judah becomes known as Judea
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Persians establish a large empire
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Cyrus' edict allows the Judeans to return to build their Temple
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Second Temple consecrated
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Persians invade Greece; Spartans resist at the Pass of Thermopylae but the Persians eventually enter and destroy the Acropolis
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Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta (who "won")
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Alexander the Great lands in Troy & moves eastward to Asia Minor
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Early Bronze Age (Old Kingdom in Egypt)
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First Intermediate Period in Egypt fall of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia
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MBII-2000-1550-Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period in Egypt (Egyptian rulers were Hyksos, foreign Asiatic people
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Hyksos are expelled from Egypt
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Late Bronze Age (New Kingdom in Egypt
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Late Bronze Age -the el-Amarna Age in Egypt
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