Palestine Timeline

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c. 3500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE

Nomads settle the region and initiate agriculture during the Early Bronze Age.
c. 2000 BCE - c. 1550 BCE

Cities develop and trade expands in the region during the Middle Bronze Age. Palestine becomes important trade hub.
c. 1550 BCE - c. 1200 BCE

Palestine is absorbed by the Egyptian Empire, flourishes in trade.
c. 1276 BCE

Philistines arrive in Palestine and settle on coast.
c. 1250 BCE - 1200 BCE

General upheaval in the region, possibly caused by Israelite conquest under General Joshua.
c. 1080 BCE

Rise of the kingdom of Israel.
c. 1080 BCE

Kingdom of Israel is founded in Palestine.
1000 BCE

David captures Jerusalem.
c. 931 BCE

Kingdom of Israel splits in two after death of Solomon; Kingdom of Judah founded.
722 BCE

Palestine invaded by Assyrian Empire; Kingdom of Israel destroyed and Kingdom of Judah subjugated.
598 BCE - 582 BCE

Babylonians invade Palestine; Kingdom of Judah destroyed, region subjugated.
c. 539 BCE

Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon; Palestine claimed by the Persian Empire. .
c. 334 BCE

Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire and claims Palestine.
c. 168 BCE

Maccabean Revolt frees Palestine from foreign rule and allows for rise of Hasmonean Dynasty.
c. 63 BCE

Palestine taken by Rome.
66 CE - 136 CE

The Jewish-Roman Wars; Rebellion in Palestine is crushed and citizens deported.
634 CE

Muslim armies invade and conquer Palestine.