Jewish & Greek Chronology

1250 B.C.

Israelites beginning to invade Palestine

1230 B.C.

Destruction of Troy; "sea peoples" invade Egypt

1200 B.C.

Mycenaean palace of Pylos is burned; the Hittite empire and Syrian coastal cities destroyed, perhaps by the "sea people"; beginning of the Iron Age

1190 B.C.

The Phillistines settle on the Palestine coast

1130 B.C.

Mycenae destroyed

1100 B.C.

Dorian invasion of Greece; Arameans using camels invade the Fertile Crescent

1075 B.C.

Collapse of Assyria

1000 B.C.

David rules most of Palestine and Transjordan

925 B.C.

Death of Solomon; separation of Isreael from Jordan

900 B.C.

Revival of Assyria, important artistic and military developements siegei warfare, battering ram) through the following century; King Asa of Judah acts against worship of gods other than Yaweh; development of heroic legend in Greece and among the Israelites; biography of David, Hebrew histiography

reprinted from The Columbia History of the World, 1972, published by Harper & Row, edited by John A. Garraty & Peter Gay