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2200BC - Canaanites Period - Abraham in Land of Canaan. Egypt conquers and enslaves the Jewish People. WHO WERE ALSO IN THE LAND OF CANAAN!
1200 BC - Israelites take the scene after the exodus from Egypt.
During the conquest of Israel. The Israelis are the only tribe to make it out of that time period. All the other Canaanites are gone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...rael_and_Judah
1000 - 586 BC: Jewish Rule: in Land of Israel and Judah
722-586 BC: Assyrian Rule: Assyrians conquer Israel; Most Jews flee to the other Jewish Kingdom of Judah (Northern Israel)
586 - 539 BC: Babylonian Rule: Babylonians Conquer the 2nd Jewish kingdom (Judah) - Destroy the 1st temple and expel the Jews
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kingdom of Judah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
539 - 333 BC: Persian Rule, with nearly automous Jewish soverignty - Cyrus the Great conquered the Babylonians and let the Jews return to Israel and Judah. The 2nd temple was build and the Jews were free to practice their religion. Jews were self-rule as a satrapie of Persia. Ironically it was the Persians who reestablished Israel.
333-165 BC: Greek Rule - Alexander the Great conquered Israel, but the Israelites maintain semi self-rule, but much more limited than under the Persians!
165-63 BC: Jewish Golden Era - The Maccabean Revolt freed the Jews!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Rom...rael_and_Judah
63 BC - 333 AD: Roman Era:
This is the most critical time in the history of Israel and the for the Jews. The events in this era lead to the excile of the Jews, mainly throughout Europe, Russia and the Middle East (hence the reason the pre-1900 why there were so many Jews is Europe and Russia) and the mass extermination of Jews. It has been estimated that 2-2.5 million Jews were killed during this time. I saw a special on the history channel a while back that it the Roman-Jewish wars never happened that there could have been 200-300 million Jews in the world today.
- 63 BC - 4 AD: Herod the Great Rule (Jewish King) - The Jews ruled Israel (Judea) as as a a Roman Client King. They Jews had semi-automny.
Herod the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
6 AD - 66 A: After Herod's death the Romans tightened their rule by establishing a Roman Procurator (Roman overlord) - who collected taxes.
66 AD The First Great Jewish Revolt! The Jews revolted against the Procurator placing a Pagan Statute on top of the 2nd Great Temple. It was disastrous for the Jews. 600,000-1,300,00 were killed. The first Jewish Dispora throughout the Middle East, Europe and Russia occurred. The 2nd Temple was destroyed. The Jews official lost their State.
First Jewish–Roman War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
70 AD - 132 AD: The Jews slowly came back to Israel
132 AD: The 2nd Jewish Revolt started and was successful in expelling the Romans
132 - 135 AD: Jewish Independent Israel
135 AD: Roman took their revenge and brutally destroyed the revolt. 580K Jews were killed. The remaining ones were further exciled throughout Europe, M.E. and Russia.
More salt on the wounds the Romans changed name of Israel/Judea to Palestina (later Palestine) after the Israelite's long extinct enemy the Philistines.
Bar Kokhba revolt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
135-330 Rome Rule - Jews were completely exciled
330 AD - 614 AD: Byzantine Rule:
Jews were allowed to return and returned in numbers. There were occassional revolts, but the numbers increased.
614 - 619 AD:
Jewish Rule. After an alliance with the Persians the Jews and Persians took Palestina.
619 - 625 AD: Persian Rule - Persian renigged and took Palestina as a colony, but Jews remained.
625 - 638 AD: Byzantine Rule - The Jews feeling betrayed by the Persian signed an alliance with the Byzantines in exchange for amnesty. After the Jews help the Byzantines expell the Persians, the Byzantines attacked the Jews killing many and exciling even more to Europe, Russian and the M.E.
638 - 1099 AD: Muslim Rule - Arab Crusades - The newly found Islamic religion went on a quest to rule the world. Look at all the places that the Arab Crusades hit (except Spain - because of the inquisition) and you will see a predominate Muslim country. However, the Jews were not exciled. At times they were presecuted, but they were able to remain and set up Jewish villages and communities.
Umayyad Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abbasid Caliphate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1099 - 1187 AD: Christian European Rule - The first crusade lead to the killing of nearly every Muslim, Jew and even Christian in Jerusalem. Mass-killings of Jews throughout Palestine and evern Europe.
Crusades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1187 - 1244 AD: Muslim Rule - Saladin conquered Jerusalem in 1187 and the rest Palestina by 1244
1244 - 1517 AD: Muslim Rule:
The Mamluks destroyed all towns on the flat coastal plains in order to rid the land of the Crusader presence and make sure it never returned. The main exceptions were Jaffa, Gaza, Lydda and Ramle. As a result of this, most trade with the west was curtailed. Due to the many earthquakes, the religious extremism and the black plague that hit during this era, the population dwindled to around 200,000 souls. It is during this period that the land began to have an indigenous Levantine Muslim majority and even in the traditional Jewish stronghold of Eastern Galilee, a new Jewish-Muslim culture began to develop.
1517-1919 AD: Turkish Rule
During the Turk's rule the population of Palestine was at its lowest! In the 1800s the Jews started to return and return in great numbers. The returned to great a majority in Jerusalem (including East Jerusalem.
Read Mark Twain's first hand accounts of Palestine at the time. He describes the tiny country as sparsely populated and a wasteland!
In 1516 the Ottoman Turks occupied Palestine. The country became part of the Ottoman Empire. Constantinople appointed local governors. Public works, including the city walls, were rebuilt in Jerusalem by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1537. An area around Tiberias was given to Don Joseph HaNasi for a Jewish enclave. Following the expulsions from Spain, the Jewish population of Palestine rose to around 25% (includes non-Ottoman citizens, excludes Bedouin) and regained its former stronghold of Eastern Galilee. That ended in 1660 when they were massacred at Safed and Jerusalem. During the reign of Dahar al Omar, Pasha of the Galilee, Jews from Ukraine began to resettle Tiberias.
Jewish immigration to Palestine, particularly to the "four sacred cities" (Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias and Hebron) which already had significant Jewish communities, increased particularly towards the end of Ottoman rule
1917 - 1948: British Rule:
The British Manddate promised the lands to both the Palestinian Arab inhabitants and Jews in a parition plan. At this time Palestine/Israel also included Transjordan! During this time period the British put an embargo on Jewish immigration (none could come), but they put NO limits on Arab immigration. Arab immigration at this time was the largest since the beginning of the first Arab Caphiliates! In fact the majority of the so called Palestinians came during this White Paper periods!
Note: Starting at the turn of the century the Jews were already creating their own government within a government at the time, which included leaders, civil services, laws and police forces!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...e_of_Palestine
1948 - Present: Jewish Rule
The Parition Plan was accepted by the Jews, but not the Arabs and War broke out in 1948-1949. With Egypt ruling over Gaza and Jordon ruling over West Bank. Although both countries had the power to grant the Palestinians an independent state, they never did. Then in the '67 after the six day war Israel acquired Gaza and the West Bank.
History of the Southern Levant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jewish history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...Land_of_Israel
NOTES:
(1) The Palestine was given the name by the Romans nearly 500 years before Arab Crusades.
(2) It was an insult prior to 1948 to call an Arab in Palestine a Palestinian. It wasn't until after '67 the Palestinian Nationalism came about.
(3) There has NEVER been a country called Palestine!