The dates that you will find inscribed in the British Museum (and in other history books and other museums housing Middle Eastern artifacts) do not agree with Jewish dating that we are following in this series.
In 6th century BCE, Assyrian king Tiglathpileser III strengthens Assyria and establishes it as a great empire to be reckoned with. (Eventually, Assyria will even challenge the mighty Egypt.) He also introduces a very interesting way of dealing with conquered peoples. It’s called exile .
Meanwhile the Jewish people of the north have settled in various locations throughout the Assyrian empire. What happens to those ten tribes? They assimilate and are known today as the ten lost tribes.
2000 bc, because of drought, and a shift in the rivers led to pastoral nomads coming in and conquering the weakened cities, then settling into them, themselves.
In 612 BCE the city of Nineveh was conquered and the
the hometowns to ruling over the whole of Mesopotamia and eastern coast of the Mediterranean and by 680 BCE, Egypt.
Hyksos, were able to conquer all of Egypt, but
New Kingdom pharaohs, focused on military expansion, which brought Egypt into conflicts with the
After his death he was replaced by his wife, and then a daughter and then a son, Tutankaten.
New Kingdom Egypt continued this military expansion but it looked more like
In 1949 we see Germany officially split into two nations. The Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb. NATO was established. The Chinese Revolution ended in communist victory. By the end of 1950 The Contours of Cold War had been established West vs East Capital Freedom versus communist totalitarism.
How was Germany effected by the Marshall plan? Germany on the other hand was experiencing the first Berlin crisis. At the end of the war Germany was divided into East and West and even though the capital Berlin was entirely in the East it was also divided into East and West. This meant that West Berlin was depending on shipments ...
Truman announced a Doctrine which pledge to support "freedom-loving peoples" against communist threats. Later the United States sent 400 million in Aid to Greece and Turkey. After that we went off to the Cold War races.
The Truman Doctrine created the language through which Americans would view the world with America as free and communist as tyrannical. The containment policy and the Truman Doctrine also laid the foundations for a military build up an arms race which would come in handy as a key feature of the Cold War.