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Babylon to Rome Timeline

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Empire Years           Major Events
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Assyria  612        Nineveh falls, effective end of Assyria. Babylon Empire world power.
Babylon 605        Battle of Carchemish, Egypt falls, Daniel deported (Dn. 1:1). Nebuchadrezzar II king.
            597        Nebuchadrezzar takes Jerusalem; many Jews exiled; city subjugated but not destroyed.
            587        Jerusalem falls.
            562-560 Amel-Marduk King of Babylon. (Evil-Merodach 2 Ki. 25:27-30)
            560-556 Neriglissar, son-in-law of Nebuchadrezzar.
            556        Labashi-Marduk.
            556-539 Nabonidus (Belshazzar acting in Babylon).
            539        Fall of Babylon.
Persia    539-530 Cyrus: the Achaemenid dynasty. Daniel's vision of a great war, 537 B.C. (Dn. 10:1)
            530-522 Cambyses.
            522-486 Darius I.
            486-465/4 Xerxes I (Ahasuerus).
            464-423 Artaxerxes.
            423-404 Darius II.
            404-359 Artaxerxes II.
            359/58-338/37 Artaxerxes III.
            338/37-336/35 Arses. 336135-331 Darius III.
Greece  334-331 Conquests of Alexander of Macedon (331- 323).
            323       Alexander dies, empire divided into four of which Egypt and Syrian are predorninant.

Egypt    323-285 Ptolemy I.
            285-245 Ptolemy II.
            247-221 Ptolemy III.
            221-203 Ptolemy IV.
            203-181 Ptolemy V.
            187        Syria took over Palestine from Egypt.

Syria     312-281 Seleucus I.
            281-260 Antiochus I.
            260-246 Antiochus II.
            245-223 Seleucus II and III.
            222-187 Antiochus III 'the Great'.
            187-175 Seleucus IV.
            175-164 Antiochus IV 'Epiphanes'.
            168        Antiochus expelled from Egypt by Roman consul (Dn. 11:30).
            167        (Dec. 25) erection of Greek altar in the Jerusalem temple.

Roman  63         Judea, the partially-Hellenized territory comes under Roman imperial rule.

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