This leads to the Israelite tribes evolving. [WoD, p67] In Pelopponese, Greece, the Franchthi Cave settlement continues to be occupied, and begins seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds), and obsidian trade with Melos. It is continuously occupied from 20,000 BCE and abandoned in 3,000...
After the death of Solomon, all the Israelite tribes except for Judah and Benjamin refused to accept Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, as their king. The rebellion against Rehoboam arose after he refused to lighten the burden of taxation that his father had imposed on his subjects....
The Israelite king Saul demands of David, as a bride-price for his daughter Michal, 100 Philistine foreskins. Ca. 730 BC "Krimon warms the heart of Simias" is one of several lines of homosexual graffiti that constitute one of the earliest know uses of the Greek alphabet. [AA] 7th Cent...
The Starting Points of Years.—A year is a circle; the end of one is the beginning of the next, and there is nothing in nature to indicate any one starting point. Sometimes the year is thought of as opening with the beginning of the agricultural cycle of sowing and reaping, which itsel...