
By the time they dug him out from under the clothing, he was smothered to death.)Ħ06 BC Nabopolassar of Babylon and Cyaxares of Media destroy Nineveh end of Assyrian Empire.ĥ86 BC Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem.ĥ85 BC Aesop’s fables thought to be written about this time. (Citizens adored Draco and upon entering an auditorium one day to attend a reception in his honor, they showered him with hats and cloaks as was their custom.

The penalty for many offenses were so severe that the word “draconian” comes from his name.
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One of the first known aqueducts is ordered by the Assyrian King Sennacherib for Nineveh – it is about 90 km (50 miles) long.Ħ21 BC Draco writes the first code of law for Athens and Greece. Traders who visited the mysterious far East empires of Cathay and T’chin speak of carriages which moved with the aid of fire (instead of horses).ħ21 BC Sargon, king of Assyria, takes Samaria and moves large numbers of Israelites to Media and Mesopotamia: the northern kingdom of Israel never revives.Ħ91 BC The aqueduct introduced to bring water from distant sources to a large urban population. Homer composes Iliad and Odyssey around this time.Ĩ00 BC Time of the prophets Amos, Hosea and Isaiah. David is King of Israel.ĩ30 BC King Solomon dies – Hebrew kingdom divided in Israel and Judah.ĩ00 BC Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey perhaps at around this time.Ĩ10 BC Phoenicians establish Carthage.

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