Timeline 1000 - 900 BC

Timeline 1000 - 900 BC

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2000-1000 BCE: Rome - Indo-European immigrants slowly inhabit Italy by way of the Alps. They bring the horse, the wheeled cart, and artistic knowledge of bronze work to the Italian peninsula. Two different groups, the Greeks and the Etruscans, occupy different regions of the peninsula during the eighth century.

-Phoenicia founded (c. 1000 B.C.)

-Phoenician alphabet developed (c. 1000 B.C.)

-Aramaeans overrun much of Assyria (c. 1000 B.C.)

-Kingdoms of Media and Parsa (Persia) founded by migrating Aryans (c. 1000 B.C.)

-Lydians from Asia Minor settle in Italy (c. 1000 B.C.)

-Ionians settle on the west coast of Asia Minor (c. 1000 B.C.)

-iron in use in Greece ( c. 1000 B.C. )

-Mayans settle in the Yucatan Peninsula ( c. 1000 B.C. )

-colonization of Samoa in the South Pacific ( c. 1000 B.C. )

-David is the king of Judah and Israel ( 1000 B.C. - 960 B.C. )

-David, king of Israel, captures Jerusalem and makes it the capital of Israel (c. 1000 B.C.)

-King Hiram I rules Tyre (969-936 B.C.)

-Solomon becomes king of Israel and builds Yahweh Temple ( 960 B.C. - 925 B.C. )

-Assyria reclaims lands lost to the Aramaean invasion (934-859 B.C.)

-Shesonq sacks Jerusalem (c. 925 B.C.)

-Israel divides into two kingdoms: Judah and Israel (c. 922 B.C.)

-Hebrew alphabet develops

The History of Rome - Part One 743 - 136 B.C.