Page Nine: 2,400 BC to 400 BC:
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2494 BC to 2345 BC: Egypt, 5th Dynasty.
2400 BC to 2350 BC: Lugalzaggisi king of Uruk, defeated the Lagash empire and became "King of the Countries."
2,360 BC to 2180 BC: Sargon united Mesopotamia and created the Akkadian empire.
2,350
BC to 2150 BC: Near East; Akkad the origin of King Sargon. Akkadian, a
Semitic language replaces Sumerian. A new naturalism in art appears.
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to 2,100 BC: Sargon, first king of Akkadian dynasty defeats
Lugalzaggisi, creates vast Semitic empire in Mesopotamia and calls
himself king of the Four Quarters.
~ to 670 AD: Nemedians were arriving in Ireland, it is said. They were considered holy and privileged.
2340 BC: Nemed and many of his people died of plague. He was buried on the hill of Ard Nemid on Great Island in Cork Harbor.
2,345 BC to 2,181 BC: Egypt; sixth dynasty.
2,320 BC to 2,270 BC: Egypt; Pepi I fought against the sand-dwellers.
2,300 to 2,200 BC: Destruction of Near East city states
2,200
BC to 700 BC: "Poverty point people" were active near what is now Epes,
Louisiana, US. There was evidence of a wide trade network. Much with
what are the nearby states Tennessee and Georgia. Also imports from
lower Mississippi and from along the Gulf coast were found. About 1500
possible trading sites were found in the area.
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to 1800 BC: Is called the Archaic Mound-Building period in the US.
There is evidence of it having begun on the lower Mississippi in what is
now Carroll and Monroe parishes in the stat of Louisiana.
2,250 BC: Cotton cultivated in Peru.
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Historic literacy. Evidence of literacy in the cities of Abydos,
Coptos, Erech, Harapa, Heracleopolis, etc in the Near East area.
2205 BC to 1766 BC: China: Xia dynasty; Xian to Shandog along Yangtze River.
2,150 BC: New people came to Ireland. Probably from around what is now called Belgium. Were they Fir Bolg?
~ Evidence that Aryans "invade" the Indus Valley.
2,000 BC to 1,000 BC: Formative stage in North America.
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In Ireland evidence of mining and metal work; that bronze and gold
objects were made. Axe heads, pottery and jewelry found dating to this
time or before.
1700 BC: "Milesian Genealogies"
1720 BC to BC: Hammurabi of Babylon.
1700 BC to 1250 BC: Troy. Early days of Homeric Troy.
~ to 1550 BC: Egypt, Hykos rule.
1700 BC to 1300 BC: Hebrews in Egypt.
1700 BC to 1300 BC: Hebrews in Egypt.???
1600
BC: or maybe 1700 BC or 1290 BC: Eber Finn was a High King of Ireland
and a son of Mil Espaine(Milesious). It seems he was an immigrant who
landed at Bantry Bay He and his brother fought the De Danann and drove
them into the hills. The name Hibernia used by Julius Caesar, as a name
for Ireland might be derived from Eber or Heber.
The Northmen and Saxsons called the land Ir, Ir-land, or Ir-landa.
1500
BC: Around this time after Lug and before Delbaeth there was a high
king of Ireland called the Dagda. He may have had Gaulish relatives.
Some say that the Dagda was a high king of the tuath d Danann after his
predecessor, Nuada was injured in a battle. The Fianna may date back to
this time.
1506 BC: Minos I has light and air shafts and bathrooms with running
water.
1570 BC: Babylon became a city comparable to earlier cities of Ur.
1550 BC: Opium used as medicine in Persia and Egypt.
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1,130 BC: Around this time Eochu Airem was high king of Ireland for perhaps a decade. He was a son of Finn .
1,200 BC to 800 BC: Woodland culture Period in North America.
1000 BC: Phoenicians in Tyre were employing the full Phoenician alphabet.
~ The Rig Veda, religious text was already compiled id in India.
~ to 290 AD: Mayan High Civilization of the late preclassic and middle preclassic periods existed.
950 BC to 800 BC: Homeric solar minimum.
800
BC: A sort of industrial revolution began in Ireland and lasted for
nearly 100 years. During these years the Irish people flourished and so
did mining, metallurgy, and alchemy. Celts continued to arrive. Ireland
was connected withe World.
700
BC: Very shortly after this time came a period of change and unrest in
Ireland. Many new Celts came, perhaps too many for comfort.
~ An Iron age began in Ulster and Ireland became defensive.
~ Celts brought an Iron Age culture and weapons to the Island. That culture spread from Tara in Ulster.
600 BC: Greeks came to Ireland again.
~ by this time Irish knew Greeks and Greeks knew Irish.
~ There certaily was contact between Irish and Greek much earlier.
750 BC: The title/name Mago was used by Carthaginian Phoenicians was in evidence as early as this time and perhaps earlier.
550 BC: to 340 BC: For these 200 some years the Magomids were a political dynasty i Carthage.
500
BC to 400 BC: There is strong evidence that the Carthaginians were
carrying on trade with people of islands beyond the Pillars of Hercules
and that included the people of Ireland.
423 BC: to 348 BC: Life span of Plato.
406 BC: Himilco II takes power after Hannibal dies of disease.