422. _Sanballat_ builds a Temple in _Mount Gerizim_ and makes his son-in-law _Manasseh_ the first High-Priest thereof. 412. Hitherto the Priests and Levites were numbered, and written in the Chronicles of the _Jews_, before the death of _Nehemiah_: at which time either _Johanan_ or _Jaddua_ was High-Priest, And here Ends the Sacred History of the _Jews_. 405. _Artaxerxes Mnemon_ Reigns. The end of the _Peloponnesian_ war. 359. _Artaxerxes Ochus_ Reigns. 338. _Arogus_ Reigns. 336. _Darius Codomannus_ Reigns. 332. The _Persian_ Empire conquered by _Alexander_ the great. 331. _Darius Codomannus_, the last King of _Persia_, slain. * * * * * THE CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDED. * * * * * CHAP. I. _Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the _Greeks_._ All Nations, before they began to keep exact accounts of Time, have been prone to raise their Antiquities; and this humour has been promoted, by the Contentions between Nations about their Originals. _Herodotus_ [3] tells us, that the Priests of _Egypt_ reckoned from the Reign of _Menes_ to that of _Sethon_, who put _Sennacherib_ to flight, three hundred forty and one Generations of men, and as many Priests of _Vulcan_, and as many Kings of _Egypt_: and that three hundred Generations make ten thousand years; _for_, saith he, _three Generations of men make an hundred years_: and the remaining forty and one Generations make 1340 years: and so the whole time from the Reign of _Menes_ to that of _Sethon_ was 11340 years. And by this way of reckoning, and allotting longer Reigns to the Gods of _Egypt_ than to the Kings which followed them, _Herodotus_ tells us from the Priests of _Egypt_, that from _Pan_ to _Amosis_ were 15000 years, and from _Hercules_ to _Amosis_ 17000 years. So also the _Chaldæans_ boasted of their Antiquity; for _Callisthenes_, the Disciple of _Aristotle_, sent Astronomical Observations from _Babylon_ to _Greece_, said to be of 1903 years standing before the times of _Alexander_ the great. And the _Chaldæans_ boasted further, that they had observed the Stars 473000 years; and there were others who made the Kingdoms of _Assyria_, _Media_ and _Damascus_, much older than the truth. Some of the _Greeks_ called the times before the Reign of _Ogyges_, Unknown, because they had No History of them; those between his flood and the beginning of the Olympiads, Fabulous, because their History was much mixed with Poetical Fables: and those after the beginning of the Olympiads, Historical, because their History was free from such Fables. The fabulous Ages wanted a good Chronology, and so also did the Historical, for the first 60 or 70 Olympiads.