NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Book i. to 500 b.c. guiding dates Dates ge?ierally inferred. Early civilisations in Egypt and in Sumer . 5000-4000 Egyptian Fourth Dynasty (Pyramid-builders) 4000-3500 Beginnings of China . . 3000 S argon of Akkad . . 2700 First Aryan Migrations . 2500 Second Semitic Migration (Canaanite) begins . . 2200 Hammurabi at Babylon . 2000 Hyksos conquest of Egypt . 1800 Appearance of Hittites . 1800 Kassite dynasty begins at Babylon .... i8co Dates approximately known. Third Semitic Migration (Aramaean) begins . . 1600 Hyksos expelled from Egypt 1 580 Rise of Assyria . . .1550 Thothmes III. in Egypt . 1470 Tell el-Amarna Letters . 1380 Rameses 11. in Egypt . . 1300 Meneptah ^ Cretan civilisation . 1250 Hellenic Sea-rovers J Nebuchadnezzar 1. . . 1200 Mycenaean and Trojan civilisation . . . 1100 Tiglath-pileser 1. . . . 1100 The Hebrew kingdom ^ Rise of Tyre and Damascus J Dorian Migration . . icoo Code of Manu in India . 1000 Shishak Ashurnasirpal Shalmaneser II. . Carthage founded circa Rome founded (traditionally) Greek Colonial expansion, from circa Tiglath-pileser IV. Fall of Damascus Shalmaneser IV. . Sargon II. . Sennacherib Tirhakah in Egypt Ashurbanipal (Sardanapa lus) .... The Cimmerian incursion Psammetichus . Rise of Lydia and Media Overthrow of Assyria by Cyaxares and Nabopolas- sar ; new Chaldaean and Median Empires Nebuchadnezzar II. Buddha in India, circa Croesus in Lydia 930 885 860 800 753 750 745 73i 727 722 705 670 668 668 660 660 607 605 600 560
