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Landmark Middle East religious

Temple of Solomon

957 BCE – 586 BCE · 371 years

First Temple built by King Solomon on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1000 BCE)
  2. Assyria (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Kingdom of Antigonus (300 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Ptolemaic Kingdom (200 BCE–100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Judea (1 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Roman Empire (100 CE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Mandatory Palestine (GB) (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Mandatory Palestine (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Israel (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Kingdom of David and Solomon

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Wars of David & Solomon

1010 BCE – 930 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Meroe

750 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

state societies and Aramaean kingdoms

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Kushite Conquest of Egypt

747 BCE – 656 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 957 BCE and 586 BCE.

800 BCE Heracleion 750 BCE Meroe 747 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt 700 BCE Thonis 612 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Carthaginian Empire Polity · Europe 801 BCE – 145 BCE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE King Solomon Figure · Israel / Judah 990 BCE – 931 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 BCE Carthage Landmark · Europe 814 BCE – still standing
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