-950

This page relates to the year -950 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Independence of the country of Couch in Nubie with respect to the Egypt. There remains marked by the Egyptian culture because of the commercial relations, of the influence of the clergy of Thèbes, and owing to the fact that soldiers coushites lived a long time in Egypt.

Rencontre enters the king of Israel Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. She is reported in chapter X of the Livre of the Kings: the Queen of Sheba goes to Jerusalem to test Solomon from which she learned the fame by enigmas, with a considerable continuation, camels carrying of aromatics, gold, precious stones, etc Solomon gives him all that she wishes.
Ménélik, wire of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, according to the Ethiopian legend, would have created the dynasty which will reign until in 1974.

Reign of Razon Ier, king Araméen of Damas.
Megiddo becomes an important royal fortress and a great administrative center in Israel.

Prosperity of Chalcis thanks to the metallurgy. Change of social order or demographic in Eubée. The primarily agricultural community hitherto, opens with the trade (Macedonia, Cyclades, Cyprus).
Égine would have been repopulated by colonists come from Épidaure

In Italy, the civilization villanovienne pro Etrusque succeeds the cultures Terramares towards -950 in north of the Latium and in Toscane.

civilization villanovienne gathers two culturally different groups of populations rather close but, one in North, around Bologna (Culture of San Vitale, -950/-750), the other in Tuscany and in the surroundings of Rome, and until in the south, until Salerno at the 8th century.

Drafting of the biblical text “the Proverbs”.
With Lefkandi (Eubée), of the new contacts is created with the close areas (Attique, Thessalie). Change intervene in the funerary habits. Local creations, as the cut with drinking “skyphos with hanging half-circles”, will become the principal archaeological testimony of the eubéenne presence in the Mediterranean during nearly two centuries. Gold reappears after a long absence. The art of metal develops (tripods out of bronze, new standard of fibule).

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