china's place in ancient history : A FRAGMENT. 121 



B.C. 



617-608. Wars of Pharaoh ISTecho against Josiah, king of Judah. 

 587. Jerusalem captured by Nebuchadnezzar after a siege of 



eight months. Commencement of the captivity which 



lasted till B.C. 5.38. Jer. xxiv, 8 ; xxxvii, 12; Ezek. xii, 13. 

 582. Daniel in Babylon, Ezekiel in Chaldea. 

 569. Nebuchadnezzar's golden image. Capture of Babylon by 



Cyrus. Belshazzar's feast and death. Is. xlvii, 12, 13 ; 



Dan. V, 1-29. 

 538. Cyrus, after conquering Babylon, allows the Jews to retui-n 



to their own country. 

 538-322. All Palestine subject to Pei-sia. 

 520. Building of the second temple. 

 458. Ezra. Neheraiah. 

 440-430. The walls of Jerusalem built by Nehemiah. 



Malachi, the last of the prophets. 



The history of the Old Testament finishes about this time. 

 332. Alexander the Great at Jerusalem, to whom Palestine is 



subject until his death B.C. 323. 

 323-301. Palestine subject to Syria. 

 801-203. Palestine subject to Egypt. 



2. Clialdea. Assyria. 



1120. Tiglath Pileser I. established in Nineveh a kind of botanical 

 garden which he filled with strange plants brought from 

 his campaigns. 

 1230. Ninus, founder of the Assyrian empire, and of Nineveh, 

 with the aid of Semiramis took Bactria. 



911-889. The armies of Rimmon-nirari overran Western Asia. 



883-858. Those of Assur-natsirpal repeated that invasion ; 

 impalements, and pyramids of skulls marked his track. 



854. Campaign of Shalmaneser II against the tribes of 

 Kurdistan ; his destruction of a confederacy including 

 Ahab of Israel at Karkar. 



841. Defeat by Shalmaneser of Hazael, king of Damascus. 



834. Revolt of twenty-seven cities, including Nineveh and 

 Assur, put down by his son Samas Rimmon, who suc- 

 ceeded him on the throne B.C. 823-818. 



810-781. Rimmon-nirari III compelled Damascus, Phoenicia, 

 Israelites, Elamites and Philistines to pay him tribute. 



763. Revolt in the city of Assur, which lasted three years. 



753. Assur-nirari, the last of his line, ascended the throne. Ten 

 years later the army declared itself against him, and he 

 and his dynasty fell together. 



747-5. Second Assyrian empire established by Tiglath Pileser 

 III, whom the Babylonians called Pul. He endeavoured 

 to unite Babylonia with Assyria; to overthrow the 

 Hittites of Carchemish, and to render Syria and Phoenicia 



