| | The Hyksos dominate Egypt. New kingdom. Eighteenth | | | | dynasty, 1580. | | | | Expulsion of the Hyksos, about 1560. | | | | Rise of Assyria. | | | | The Kassite dynasty in Babylon, about 1750-1130. | | | | Hittite Empire in Syria. | | | | Latin and Hellenic entry into Europe and Asia Minor. | | | | Third (Aramæan) Semitic wave, dominating W. Asia, but | | | | absorbed in existing states. | | |1500 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 1500 | | | FAR EAST: Beginning of definite Chinese history, with | | | | the Chau dynasty. | | | | EGYPT: Nineteenth dynasty, Sethos and the Ramesides; | | | | struggle with Hittite Empire. | | | | WESTERN ASIA: Burnaburiash, 1380. Pashe dynasty in | | | | Babylon, 1130-1000. | | | | Period of Phœnician prosperity. | | | | Rise of the United Kingdom of the Hebrews. | | | | Crete, Troy, and Mycenæ. The Ionic and Doric | | | | migrations. | | |1000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 1000 | | | WESTERN ASIA: The Hebrew kingdom divided into Judah | | | | and Israel or Samaria. | | | | Rise of Aramæan kingdom of Syria. Chaldean | | | | domination in Babylon. | | | | Assyrian Middle Empire. | | | | EGYPT: Twenty-second dynasty (“Shishak” king of | | | | Egypt). | | | 900 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 900 | | | EUROPE: Early monarchical governments replaced | | | | usually by aristocracies. | | | | Probable period of the Homeric poems. | | | | WESTERN ASIA: Successful resistance of Syria to | | | | Assyria. | | | | Appearance of the (Aryan) Medes in the East. | | | | AFRICA: Founding of Carthage. | | | 800 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 800 | | | EGYPT: Domination of Ethiopians or Cushites. | | | | WESTERN ASIA: Assyrian New Empire; conquest of Syria, | | | | Samaria, and Babylon. | | | | Lydian and Phrygian kingdoms in Asia Minor. | |