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| c. 970 BC |
| | | Hiram, the Phoenician king of Tyre, is an enthusiastic trading partner of King David in Jerusalem, and later of Solomon | |
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| c. 965 BC |
| | | Solomon becomes king of Israel and presides over a period of peace and prosperity | |
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| c. 960 BC |
| | | Solomon, the king of Israel, builds the first Temple in Jerusalem | |
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| c. 950 BC |
| | | The Queen of Sheba, who visits Solomon in Jerusalem, is legendary - but her kingdom of Saba is a historical reality | |
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| c. 950 BC |
| | | Libyans in the Egyptian army take control of the nation and rule as pharaohs | |
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| c. 950 BC |
| | | Wood from the famous cedars of Lebanon is only one of the many luxury goods traded by the Phoenicians | |
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| c. 910 BC |
| | | Solomon's son Rehoboam is unable to prevent the ten northern tribes going their own way, under the leadership of Jeroboam | |
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| c. 900 BC |
| | | Chávin de Huántar becomes the centre of the first civilization of south America | |
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| c. 900 BC |
| | | La Venta replaces San Lorenzo as the capital city and cultural centre of the Olmecs | |
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| c. 870 BC |
| | | Ashurnasirpal II creates a spectacular new capital at Nimrud (and claims to have had 69,574 guests at his palace-warming party) | |
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| -868 BC |
| | | Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region | |
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| -853 BC |
| | | Gindibu brings 1000 Arab warriors on camels to do battle at Karkar (the first known reference to Arabs as a distinct group) | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | Citium, in Cyprus, is the first of many Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The technique of glazing pottery is discovered in Mesopotamia, though used at this stage only for decorative purposes | |
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| c. -814 BC |
| | | The traditional date of the founding of Carthage (supposedly by the mythical queen Dido, but in practice by Phoenicians) | |
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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The Assyrian army makes good use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons | |
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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt | |
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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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| 771 BC |
| | | The Zhou rulers, driven east from Xi'an, create a new capital at Loyang and establish the Eastern Zhou dynasty | |
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| 753 BC |
| | | This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | Ionia emerges as a political entity, forming a league of twelve Greek cities in Asia Minor | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| 722 BC |
| | | The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery | |
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| c. 719 BC |
| | | The king of Cush, or Nubia, conquers down the Nile to the sea, establishing the Cushite dynasty | |
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| 710 BC |
| | | The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria | |
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| c. 704 BC |
| | | Wrestling is included in the Olympic games, followed by a terrifying form of all-in wrestling from 652 BC | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Egyptian scribes develop an abbreviated version of hieroglyphs for everyday use, in the script known as demotic ('for the people') | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Judah and Benjamin, together forming the kingdom of Judah, are the only two surviving tribes of Israel | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Sennacherib moves the Assyrian capital to a new site at Nineveh | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The island of Sicily is colonized from the eastern Mediterranean by both Phoenicians and Greeks | |
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| 689 BC |
| | | The Assyrian king, Sennacherib, destroys with great brutality the city of Babylon | |
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| 688 BC |
| | | Boxing is included in the Olympic games, with each bout going on until one fighter gives up | |
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| c. 667 BC |
| | | Byzantium (the future Constantinople) is founded as a colony of Megara, a Greek city-state | |
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