Year/Time Frame

Canaan/Eretz Israel

Jews Elsewhere

Jewish Culture

General History

Before 1800 BCE

Early Bronze Age

3760

3500

3100

3000

2105

Middle Bronze Age

19^{th Century BCE}

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^{The Forefathers}

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^{18th Century BCE}

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^{17th Century BCE}

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^{Creation of the world, Adam and Eve (according to tradition)}

^{Abel is herdsman 1.(Gen. 4:2)}

^{Cain is farmer 2.(Gen. 4:2)}

^{Village culture especially in Negev and Jordan Valley. Copper implements.}

^{Diverse pottery}

^{Fortified cities.}

^{Cultic "high places"}

^{Early western Semitic spoken.}

^{Abraham born. [a]}

^{Sarah born. Land of Canaan subject to Egyptian control.}

^{Abraham settled in Canaan.}

^{Isaac born.}

^{"Akeidat Yitzchak"- Isaac prepared for sacrifice. (6) [d]}

^{Hyksos govern Egypt (-1650)}

^{According to one source (8) Hebrew slavery in Egypt began.}

^{10 Generations from Noah to Abraham}

^{7 Noachide laws: Idolatry; Heresy; Murder; Sexual prohibitions; Stealing; Dismembering living animals; Courts of Justice [b]}

^{First possible nation of Jerusalem}

^{(Yero-Shalem) (7. Gen 22:14)}

^{Sheep domestication (N. Iraq) Settlements in Aria Minor characterized by pottery. Agriculture: wheat, barley.}

^{Village culture, pottery, crafts, in upper Mesopotamia, later Syria and Mediterranean coast.}

^{Custom of burying dead with possessions -Egypt.}

^{Early writing (Sumarians)}

^{Jericho- civilized; animal domestication, cereal crops, tools, foreign trade [g]}

^{Sumerians (Shinar? - 3.(Gen. 11:12) -cities, irrigation canals, bronze work; early writing. [c]}

^{Civilization in Phoenicia and beyond. Egypt: Hieroglyphics}

^{The great flood 4.(Gen. 7:5-7) [f]}

^{Invasion of Greece (1300)}

^{3rd dynasty of Ur (1300)}

^{Kaneshi center of Assyrian colonies.}

^{Marduk is god in Babylon.}

^{Dispersion from Babel (1765)(7)}

^{First tombs in Egypt; 12th dynasty Hammorabi code in Babylon (e)}

^{Decimal system in Crete.}

^{Beginnings of Persian Empire.}

^{Bronze age Britain (Stonehenge).}

^{Huangho culture in China.}

^{Teutonic settlement in S. Norway.}

^{Water dam in India.}