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I can not give you any positive dates connected with Prehistoric Man. The early Europeans who appear in the first chapters of this book began their career about fifty thousand years ago.
THE EGYPTIANS
The earliest civilization in the Nile Valley
developed forty centuries before the birth of
Christ.
3400 B.C. The Old Egyptian Empire is founded. Memphis is the capital.
2800--2700 B.C. The Pyramids are built.
2000 B.C. The Old Empire is destroyed by the Arab shepherds, called the "Hyksos."
1800 B.C. Thebes delivers Egypt from the Hyksos and becomes the centerof the New Egyptian Empire.
1350 B.C. King Rameses conquers Eastern Asia.
1300 B.C. The Jews leave Egypt.
1000 B.C. Egypt begins to decline.
700 B.C. Egypt becomes an Assyrian province.
650 B.C. Egypt regains her independence and a new State is founded with Sais in the Delta as its capital. Foreigners, especially Greeks, begin to dominate the country.
525 B.C. Egypt becomes a Persian province.
300 B.C. Egypt becomes an independent Kingdom ruled by one of Alexander the Great's generals, called Ptolemy.
30 B.C. Cleopatra, the last princess of the Ptolemy dynasty, kills herself and Egypt becomes part of the Roman Empire.
THE JEWS
2000 B.C. Abraham moves away from the land of Ur in eastern Babylonia and looks for a new home in the western part of Asia.
1550 B.C. The Jews occupy the land of Goshen in Egypt.
1300 B.C. Moses leads the Jews out of Egypt and gives them the Law.
1250 B.C. The Jews have crossed the river Jordan and have occupied Palestine.
1055 B.C. Saul is King of the Jews.
1025 B.C. David is King of a powerful Jewish state.
1000 B.C. Solomon builds the Great Temple of Jerusalem.
950 B.C. The Jewish state divided into two Kingdoms, that of Judah and that of Israel.
900-600 B.C. The age of the great Prophets.
722 B.C. The Assyrians conquer Palestine.
586 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar conquers Palestine. The Babylonian captivity.
537 B.C. Cyrus, King of the Persians, allows the Jews to return to Palestine.
167-130 B.C. Last period of Jewish independence under the Maccabees.
63 B.C. Pompeius makes Palestine part of the Roman Empire.
40 B.C. Herod King of the Jews.
70 A.D. The Emperor Titus destroys Jerusalem.
MESOPOTAMIA
4000 B.C. The Sumerians take possession of the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
2200 B.C. Hammurapi, King of Babylon, gives his people a famous code of law.
1900 B.C. Beginning of the Assyrian State, with Nineveh as its capital.
950-650 B.C. Assyria becomes the master of western Asia.
700 B.C. Sargon, the ruler of the Assyrians, conquers Palestine, Egypt and Arabia.
640 B.C. The Medes revolt against the Assyrian rule.
530 B.C. The Scythians attack Assyria. There are revolutions all over the Kingdom.
608 B.C. Nineveh is destroyed. Assyria disappears from the map.
608-538 B.C. The Chaldeans reestablish the Babylonian Kingdom.
604-561 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem, takes Phoenicia and makes Babylon the center of civilization.
538 B.C. Mesopotamia becomes a Persian province.
330 B.C. Alexander the Great conquers Mesopotamia.
THE PHOENICIANS
1500-1200 B.C. The city of Sklon is the chief Phoenician center of trade.
1100-950 B.C. Tyre becomes the commercial center of Phoenicia.
1000-600 B.C. Development of the Phoenician colonial Empire.
850 B.C. Carthage is founded.
586-573 B.C. Siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. The city is captured and destroyed.
538 B.C. Phoenicia becomes a Persian province.
60 B.C. Phoenicia becomes part of the Roman Empire.
THE PERSIANS
At an unknown date the Indo-European people began their march into Europe and into India.
The year 1000 B.C. is usually given for Zarathustra, the great teacher of the Persians, who gave an excellent moral law.
650-B.C. The Indo-European Medes found
a state along the eastern boundaries
of Babylonia.
550-330 B.C. The Kingdom of the Persians. Beginning of the struggle between Indo-Europeans and Semites.
525-8.C. Cambyses, King of the Persians, takes Egypt.
520-485 B.C. Rule of Darius, King of the Persians, who conquers Babylon and attacks Greece.
485-465 B.C. Rule of King Xerxes, who tries to establish himself in eastern Europe but fails.
330 B.C. The Greek, Alexander the Great, conquers all of western Asia and Egypt and Persia becomes a Greek Province.
The ancient world which was dominated by Semitic peoples lasted almost
forty centuries. In the fourth century before the birth of Christ it
died of old age.
Western Asia and Egypt had been the teachers of the Indo-Europeans who had occupied Europe at an unknown date.
In the fourth century before Christ, the Indo-European pupils had so far surpassed their teachers that they could begin their conquest of the world.
The famous expedition of Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. made an end to the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia and established the supremacy of Greek (that is European) culture.
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