2344 B.C.
As the waters receded, the Arc landed on Mt. Ararat, located in today’s Turkey. (1938 a Russian pilot claims to have taken pictures of the Arc from 14,000 feet. Many hiking expeditions have visited the site since.)
The passengers of the Arc disembarked. The animals free to roam, the eight remaining humans started new civilizations. Noah, his wife, and three sons, were selected because they were pure. The Son’s wife’s however, two of them proved to have been tainted genetically. In the later generations of Ham and Japheth, Giants did reoccur, not at the same rate as before, but they did. On Shem’s side however men were untainted.
“His days shall be an hundred and twenty years” God said about Man. Therefore, the generations that followed had reduced life spans.
Ham and Japheth had made their separate ways to different areas than Noah and Shem.
2300 B.C.
– Nimrod, grand-son of Ham, or also known as Gilgamesh, was a man of great stature (his bed was 12 feet long), and became the King of the land of Shinar or modern days Mesopotamia. In his kingdom was built the tower of Babel. Nimrod was the only and last King of the World.– The first Egyptian civilizations were followed by the Old Kingdom.
First recorded exploring expedition: Hannu is said to have sailed down the Red Sea to explore the southeastern areas of the Arabian peninsula (called Punt), during Egypt’s 2nd dynasty. He sailed to what is now part of eastern Ethiopia and Somalia.
– Beginning of the early Chinese civilizations.
– Another old world civilization rose in the Hindus Valley.
2300-2200 B.C. The great navigators and traders of Phoenicia.
2200 B.C.
– After their travels around today’s Russia, through the tip of North America, settlements in South Central America gave birth to the Mayan civilizations.
2200 B.C.
– Traces of the Ancient Chosun civilization were found in the areas of today’s northern Korea, and the south east of today’s China. It later led to the Gojoseon Kingdom (ancestor of today’s Korea).
2000 B.C. At 100 years old, Abraham (descendant of Shem) had his second son by his 90 year old wife Sarah: Isaac. He then sent away his first son Ishmael and the mother Hagar maid of Sarah. Ishmael was to be the ancestor of the nations of Arabia.
1600 B.C. Ancient Greece early stages, to culminate under Alexander The Great of Macedonia.
1500 B.C. Moses (the author of Genesis) Exodus, flight from Egypt. 40 years and Joshua leads the people of Israel over the Jordan.
1100 B.C. Saul and the Kingdom of Israel (Capital: Jerusalem). Under the second King, David, expanded its military power and conquests. The 3rd King Solomon, took the Kingdom to a prosperity known by all neighbors. He actively worked and traded with the Phoenicians and Assyrians. The Kingdom split right after his death (974 BC.). First, the Northern Kingdom was invaded by the Assyrians (Capital Damascus was destroyed). Later, the Southern Kingdom (Jerusalem) was utterly destroyed by the Babylonians around 600 B.C. The survivors fled or were taken captive.
6th Century B.C. Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer who explored the Middle East, including the Indus River. He sailed from the city of Caspatyrus (in Pactyica) toward the sea and explored for 30 months. Scylax was sent by the Emperor Darius of Persia (now Iran), who wanted the information in order to expand his empire and conquer India.
550 B.C. The Persian Empire succeeded the Assyrians and the Babylonians, until the Muslim conquest around 650 AD.
500 B.C. Roman civilization gave birth to the mighty Roman Empire. It’s division and gradual decline until the end of 4th century AD.
114 B.C. Zhang Qian was a Chinese explorer who traveled to the steppes of Central Asia during the reign of the Han dynasty Emperor Han Wudi. He was the first person to bring information on this area to China. From this 12-year journey, Zhang Qian was named supreme counselor of the palace by the Emperor. Many years later, the Emperor sent him to visit the Wu-sun people to the northwest of China, another Indo-European tribe living in what is now Russia. His travels, and those of his assistants (who visited Uzbekistan and Afghanistan) opened up Chinese trade and helped begin the Silk Road, an important trade route connecting the east and the west.
