The History of Palestine
~2000-1500 BCE, civil fighting between Canaanite tribes ~1500 BCE, Egyptians takes over (During all this time, the peoples of Israel and Judah were busy fighting each other)
733 BCE, Assyrians takes over (During all this time, the peoples of Israel and Judah were busy fighting each other)
605 BCE, Babylonians take over
330 BCE, Alexander the Great and the Macedonians takes over
320-275 BCE, Palestine changes hands many times as Alexander the Great's successors fought with each other during the wars of the Diadochi.
301 BCE, the Ptolemaic Dynasty takes over
200 BCE, the Seleucid Dynasty takes over
160 BCE, Judah "The Hammer" Maccabees and the Hasmodean Dynasty takes over
63 BCE, Romans takes over
395 CE, the Byzantine Empire takes over
638 CE, the Islamic Caliphate takes over
1099 CE, the Europeans takes over during the First Crusade
(lots of fighting that's too tedious to list)
1187 CE, Saladin and the Mamluk Dynasty takes over.
1517 CE, The Ottoman Turks takes over
1917 CE, The British takes over (during which both the Palestinians and Zionists fought the British)
1948 CE, Israel established
(and even more wars too tedious to list) |