timeline: 925 B.C. and 925 A.D.

925 B.C.

Institutions:
-Solomon builds Yahweh Temple 960-925 B.C.

Technology:
-Hebrew alphabet develops
-Bronze tripods were being cast in Lefkandi 925-900 B.C.
-Geometric period develops in Greece 900-700 B.C.

Governance:
-Solomon becomes king 960-925 B.C.
-Shesonq sacks Jerusalem 925 B.C.
-Israel divides into two kingdoms: Judah and Isreal 922 B.C.
-Razon, former officer of Zobah assumed control of Aram Damascus 930 B.C.
-Rehoboam, son of Solomon gains control 928 B.C.
-The ten tribes to the north refuse to accept Rehoboam and he is left with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin 928-925 B.C.
-Solomon dies in 925 B.C.
-Jeroboam and Rehoboam each claim the throne.
-Osorkon I succeds his father Shosenq as king of Egypt 924 B.C.
-Phorbas, king of Athens dies after a reign of 30 years, succeeded by son Meqacles 922 B.C.

Commerce:
-Solomons elaborate building operations led to forced labor, high taxes, and increasing unrest among the populace 930's B.C.
-At this point, it best delinates the riseof Isreal from its fall.


925 A.D.

Institutions:
-Foundation of Norsetown in Limerick 922 A.D.
-Pueblo Bonito (Pretty Village) reached 5 stories in height along its back wall and may have contained as many as 800 rooms 919 A.D.
-King Edward begins to rebuild towns and build forts 921 A.D.

Governance:
-Romanus I (Lekapenus) Byzantine Emporer 920-944 A.D.
-Athelstan, king of the English 927-939 A.D.
-Welsh kings submit to English over-king 927 A.D.
-Battle of Brunanburgh: King Athelstan defeats Danes 937 A.D.
-King Athelstan consolidates power with peace treaty at Emmet 926 A.D.
-Symeon of Bulgaria defeats the Byzantine army for the 4th and last time 922 A.D.
-Africa: the Golden Age of the kingdom of Ghana begins 920 to 1050 A.D.

Commerce:
-Ulfljotr the Norwegian brings the Gulathing Law to Iceland, where it used as a model upon which Icelandic Law is based 920 A.D.
-Ibn-Fadlan, an Arab embassador to the Scandinavian Rus along the Volga, writes his account of their customs.
-First Althing held at Thingvellir in Iceland, establishment of the Icelandic Free State 930 A.D.




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