home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ MacFormat 1998 August / macformat-066.iso / Shareware Plus / Education / Twistory 1.0 PPC / ttt / neobab.ttt < prev    next >
Encoding:
Text File  |  1998-02-21  |  1.3 KB  |  33 lines  |  [TEXT/ttxt]
  1. //  2nd Babylonian Empire
  2.  
  3. #bc
  4.  
  5. //  Note:  some historians place all of these dates about 20 years earlier
  6.  
  7. //#p <nat>Chaldean<n>Merodach Baladan<info>sent ambassadors to Hezekiah<ref>Isa 39; 2 Ki 20:12-19
  8.  
  9.  
  10. //  Nabopolassar
  11.  
  12. #p <nat>Babylonian<o>king<n>Nabopolassar/*<fa>Merodach Baladan*/<ac>626<d>605<info>founder of Chaldean dynasty
  13. #e <t>battle<n>Nabopolassar revolts against Assyrians<d>626 Oct<c>Ninevah
  14. #e <t>battle<n>Ninevah captured by Babylonians and Medes<d>612<c>Ninevah<vic>Babylonia
  15.  
  16.  
  17. //  Nebuchadnezzar
  18.  
  19. #p <nat>Babylonian<o>king<n>Nebuchadnezzar<aka>Nebuchadrezzar<fa>Nabopolassar<ac>605<d>562<c>Babylon
  20. #e <t>battle<n>Nebuchadnezzar defeats Egyptians<d>605<c>Carchemish<vic>Babylonia
  21. //another version of the 586 one? #e <t>siege<n>Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem<d>605<c>Jerusalem
  22. #e <t>deportation<n>Judean captives taken to Babylon<d>605<c>Judea
  23. #e <t>battle<n>Syria falls to Babylonians<d>604<c>Syria
  24. #e <t>siege<n>Jerusalem besieged<d>597 Jan<e>597 Mar 16<c>Jerusalem
  25. #e <t>siege<n>Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem<d>587<e>586<c>Jerusalem<vic>Babylonia
  26. #e <t>battle<n>Fall of Jerusalem<d>586<c>Jerusalem<info>The city and the temple are destroyed
  27. //Nebuchadnezzar's dream<info>which Daniel interprets and explains<d>596 ?
  28.  
  29.  
  30. //  Belshazzar
  31.  
  32. #p <nat>Babylonian<o>king<n>Belshazzar<ac>562<d>539<c>Babylon
  33.