NMC101H1 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 December 4
7 Dec 2017
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Egyptians are now part of an eastern mediterranean world where the greeks are playing an even bigger part naucratis city in egypt is mostly populated by greek merchants. King neko ii (2nd king of dynasty 26) tries to build a canal to link the nile to the red sea not entirely successful. The egyptians stayed faithful to the assyrian overloads, they take over the town of ashdod in. But then, the assyrian empire falls in 612 bce (capital city was nineveh and it falls to the babylonians), now we have the neo-babylonian empire and they move west and west and then south. Battle of carchemish: assyrian army completely defeated, egyptians stayed faithful to assyrians and fought against babylonians but lost. Fall of jerusalem: 586/587 bce, babylonian captivity, destruction of solomon i temple, the. Babylonians just sacked the place and took the elite, this is when the old testament was written.
