Timeline Semitic Religions
-3,000 |
Large floods in Mesopotamia (Noah?) |
-2,925 |
start of hieroglyphs |
-2,900 |
Egyptians sail out of the Red Sea |
-2,600 |
dough (bread) Egypt |
-2,600 |
education: lists of words and text tablets (Ur, Mesopotamia) |
-2,000 |
Full European Bronze Age |
-2,000 |
Islamic claim: Abraham builds the original Ka'bah in Mecca, and brings in the "black stone", given by God in the act of the expulsion from paradise to absorb man's sins. Hence it -such is claimed by Muslims- turned black through the ages. |
-2,000 |
Abraham leaves Ur: the easy life in Ur (South Mesopotamia) is over for Semites: influence of Hammurabi of Babylon. First ever written legislation with severe punishment (mutilation, impaling, burning, drowning). Echo of the expulsion from paradise. |
-1,850 |
First Suez canal (until AD 775) |
-1,800 |
Gilgamesh Epos |
-1,750 |
Trade between Mesopotamia and China |
-1,500 |
Start of Mass influx of Semite peoples in Palestine, Bible claim: Jews sent off from Egyptian exile, Moses. |
-1,472 |
Start of intensive trade between Egypt and East Africa (Hatshepsut) |
-1,200 |
Start of use or iron |
-1,013 |
Kingdom of Jerusalem (David) |
-957 |
Salomon Temple (Kingdom of Jerusalem) |
-721 |
Assyrians conquer Samaria |
-586 |
Jews conquered by Assyrians (Nebukadnessar II), sent -for 48 years- in exile in Babylon (still a paradise, yes, but not for the Jews) |
-586 |
Babylonians abduct Jews (Babylon exile) |
-539 |
Persians (Cyrus) defeat Assyrians, conquer both Babylon and Palestine. Jews sent back to Palestine. Expansion of Persia to an unprecedented empire |
354 |
Augustinus, Algeria |
391 |
Semites (Christians) destroy the until then surviving daughter-library of Alexandria (main destruction 48BC by perpetrators not unambiguously identified, when Caesar and Cleopatra took power) |
470 |
Boethius, Rome |
570 |
Mohammed born in Mecca. Start two centuries of Arab conquests, ending East to Pakistan, West to Portugal and Spain.. |
640 |
Semites (Muslims this time), set fire on the last remains of the library of Alexandria |
672 |
Molotov cocktail: invented by Callicus, a Syrian. The Arabs, attacking Byzantium, were not interested, the emperor of van Byzantium was. His boats featured flame-throwers (put on pressure by a two person hand pump) on the front deck. Hence "Greek fire". |
800 |
Arabs establish themselves everywhere as local elites, united in a pan-Arab trade federation. Security of trade by using the sakk (check) for payment and Koran ruling trade affairs: no interest on loans. An extremely wealthy, technologically unprecedented zero interest rate commercial society. |
1,225 |
Thomas Aquinas, Paris |
1,637 |
Pope of Rome, Sublimus Dei: Non-whites are rational beings and potential Christians |
1,830 |
The catholic church admits practically the lawfulness of interest on loans, even for ecclesiastical property, though it has been thought too tough to promulgate a doctrinal decree on the subject. See the replies of the Vatican dated 18 August, 1830, 31 August, 1831, 17 January, 1838, 26 March, 1840, and 28 February, 1871; and that of the catholic "Sacred Penitentiary" of 11 February, 1832 ("Collectio Lacensis" (Acta et decreta s. conciliorum recentiorum), VI, col. 677, Appendix to the Council of Pondicherry; and in the "Enchiridion" of Bucceroni. |
1,930 |
Slavery abolished in Liberia and Ethiopia. |
1,962 |
Slavery made illegal in the Arabian Peninsula |