Transcript Old Testament period The Ancients

3,000 to 500 AD – history of the Middle East
A period of empire, in the birthplace of man
The Ancients
Old Testament period
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Egypt = Roman
Province
Egypt
Fall of Babylon
539 BC
Sumerian
Minoan
Etruscans
Byzantine
empire
Romans
Constantinople
330 AD
Assyrian
Kassite
Carthage
Fall of Carthage
146 AD
Greece
Hittite
Mycaenean
Phoenicia
Median
Persia
Fall of Rome
470 AD
Seleucid Parthian
Israel
Fall of Jerusalem
Exile
597 BC
597 – 539 BC
Fall of Judah
587 BC
Fall of Jerusalem
70 AD
Many great empires, but consistently, mankind searching for meaning from the supernatural across
the centuries. 3,500 years of history, man increasingly contemplating his place in the grand scheme of
things – and very often fighting viciously (and dying) to have his personal belief upheld!
2,000 BC to 2000 AD – the time of Religions – the age of God
Three great continents, three world religions.
Hinduism 3000BC
Judaism 2000BC
Buddhism 480BC
Christianity 32AD
Islam
570AD
God’s new covenant with man
Old testament period
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Solomon
becomes
King 987 BC
Temple 1 built
by Solomon
Temple
destroyed
587BC
Temple 2 built
by Jews BC19
Temple 3
built AD638
Temple
destroyed
70 AD
Christianity vs Islam
Pentateuch (Torah) written?
History of the Middle East
Ancient world 5000 BC to 400 AD
New
Testament
written
Old Testament written
Foundations of
modern thinking
Plato c427-347BC
Aristotle 384-322BC
Socrates 469-399BC
Homer (unknown)
Council
of
Hippo
AD393
Ascendancy of Europe
Council of
Trent
AD AD1546
Medieval to early Renaissance 400 – 1600
Late Renaissance to industrial revolution 1600 – 1850 AD
Koran/Haddith
Reformation
Jesus
Christ
The weight of so many prophets, philosophers and great intellects across the millennia point to God!
5000 years, many leading figures of religious evolution – a chronology
B.C.
c. 2000? -- Abraham, founder of Judaism, is alive.
c. 13th century -- Moses, Hebrew lawgiver, is alive
c. 1100 - c. 500 -- The Veda , sacred texts of the Hindus, are compiled.
604 -- Traditional birth date of Lao-tzu, founder of Taoism.
588 -- Traditional birth date of Zoroaster's revelation.
c. 563 - c. 483 -- Buddha, founder of Buddhism, is alive.
551 - 479 -- Confucius, founder of Confucianism, is alive.
c. 540 - c. 468 -- Mahavira, founder of the Jains is alive.
c. 200 -- The Bhagavad Gita, important Hindu text, is written.
6 or 4 - c. A.D. 30 -- Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Christianity, is alive.
A.D.
33? -- The Crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
64? -- Peter, disciple of Jesus and, according to tradition, first bishop of Rome, dies.
c. 70 - c. 100 -- First four books of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - are written.
5th century -- Two Buddhist sects - Zen and Pure Land (or Amidism) - are established.
c. 570 - 632 -- Muhammad the prophet - whose teachings, recorded in the Koran, form the basis of Islam - is alive.
622 -- Muhammad flees persecution in Mecca and settles in Yathrib (later Medina); the first day of the lunar year in which this event,
known as the Hegira, takes place marks the start of the Muslim era.
936 -- Traditional date of the arrival from Iran of the first Parsis (followers of Zoroastrianism) in India.
1054 -- Catholic Pope Leo IX condemns the patriarch of Constantinople, finalizing the split between the Eastern Orthodox Church
and the Roman Catholic Church.
c. 1224 - 74 -- Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian, is alive.
1309 - 77 -- The Roman Catholic papacy is seated in Avignon, France.
1483 - 1546 -- Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany and author of "95 Theses" (1517) is alive.
1491 - 1556 -- Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order or Roman Catholic priests, is alive.
1509 - 64 -- John Calvin, leader of the Protestant Reformation in France, is alive.
1549 -- The first Christian mission in Japan is established.
1582 -- Jesuit Matteo Ricci is the first missionary to be sent to China.
1620 -- Plymouth Colony in North America is founded in December by 102 English Puritan separatists, known as Pilgrims.
1642 - 91 -- George Fox, English founder of the Protestant Society of Friends (the Quakers) is alive.
1703 - 91 -- John Wesley, English founder of the Protestant movement that later became the Methodist Church, is alive.
1859 -- Charles Darwin, English naturalist, publishes Origin of Species , which elucidates his theory of organic evolution.
1869 - 70 -- The first Roman Catholic Vatican Council, at which the dogma of papal infallibility is promulgated, is convened by Pope Pius IX.
1869 - 1948 -- Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian spiritual and political leader who helped his country achieve independence from Britain
and sought rapprochement between Hindus and Muslims, is alive.
1933 - 45 -- The systematic persecution and attempted extermination of European Jews, known as the Holocaust, by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party takes place.
1948 -- The independent Jewish state of Israel is declared.
1962 - 65 -- The second Roman Catholic Vatican Council, at which changes were made in the liturgy and greater participation in services by lay church members
was encouraged, is convened by Pope John XXIII and concluded by Pope Paul VI.