580 BC to 530 BC; Transition from Egypt to Persia

In this organic review of the past 3,000 years of global history, each post is a preliminary sketch intended to be fleshed out by future expansion and edits, and augmented by wonderful contributions from you dear reader.

One may characterize this era as a period where the Middle Earth royal family moved back eastward toward some Mesopotamian origins, and ruled the world from a new head quarters in Persia. After the Exodus, Egypt had lost a strong portion of leadership; Palestine and later Rome would be the major beneficiaries of the northern migration of the Hebrew people.

Circa 572 BC King Zhou Jian Wang of the Zhou Dynasty passes away in China, and within two years Pharaoh Amasis II of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty in Egypt would succeed Apries Wahibre Haaibre, Fourth King of the 26th dynasty, who was also known as Waphres Hophra. Apries inherited the throne from his father, pharaoh Psamtik II, in February 589 BC.

Circa 562 BC—Amel-Marduk succeeds Nebuchadnezzar II as king of Babylon. A few years later around 559 BC King Cambyses I of Anshan dies and is succeeded by his son Cyrus II the Great.

In 550 BC, halfway through the century two momentous events would occur:

Cyrus the Great establishes the Persian Empire

Siddartha Gautama Buddha founded Buddhsim in northeastern India

By 546 BC Cyrus had captured major Greek cities, providing ports and access to the Mediterranean for his growing Persian Empire. In 540 BC King Amyntas I of Macedon is crowned. What began as a small vassal or client state of King Darius Hyspastes of Persia (Darius I), would a couple of centuries later grow to become the strongest power in the world under Alexander the Great, whose territories would include most of the Persian Empire and new lands to the west.

730 BC to 680 BC; Organic Chronology of Global History

Each post in this series is intended to promote discussion and many posts will be expanded as further research is completed.

In Egypt, the 23rd and 24th dynasties led to rule from Nubia in the 25th Dynasty, when the Sun Kings re-took the throne after a period of exile in Ethiopia. Circa 728 BC, Piye invades Egypt, conquering Memphis, and receives the submission of the rulers of the Nile Delta. He founds the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. In the year 719 BC, King Huan of Zhou of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of China.

Hezekiah witnessed the forced resettlement of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon's Assyriansin c 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC. The siege was lifted by a miraculous plague that afflicted Sennacherib's army. Even so, the Assyrians conquered much of Judah, and Hezekiah's people came to yearn for an ideal king who would restore the golden age of David.

Notably, Isaiah and Micah prophesied during his reign. Hezekiah enacted sweeping religious reforms, during which he removed non-Yahwistic elements from the Jerusalem temple. In 701 BC, King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Egypt, revolts against King Sennacherib of Assyria. Sennacherib sacks many Palestinian cities, but fails in his attempt to take Jerusalem.

During 691 to 689 BC, Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt (approximate date), and King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks Babylon.

Circa 687 BC, Hezekiah was succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah. and 682 BC marked the death of King Zhuang of Zhou, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

780 BC to 730 BC; World History Organic Review

Readers are invited to post global historical events for each time period in the comments section below. The 8th century BC is conventionally taken as the beginning of Classical Antiquity, with the first Olympiad set at 776 BC, and the epics of Homer dated to the period. In a modern understanding of chronology, this era marks the concurrent ending of the 19th Dynasty and the beginnings of the 20th and 21st Dynasties.

The 20th Dynasty featured 3 prominent Pharaohs of the 9 who reigned: Ramses III, Ramses IX, and Ramses XI. The 21st Dynasty overlapped the 20th and the longest reigning Pharaohs were Smendes, Psusennes I, Siamun and Psusennes II.

The so-called 22nd Dynasty actually covers rulers who were contemporaneous with and/or the exaft same human beings who historians have categorized as the 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd Dynasties.

According to Wikipedia and other sources, 771 BC marked the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty in China as "western" barbarian tribes sack the capital Hao. King You of Zhou is killed. Crown Prince Ji Yijiu escapes and will reign as King Ping of Zhou.

Around 755 BC, Aeschylus the King of Athens died after a reign of 23 years and was succeeded by Alcmeon. Greece colonizes other regions of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. Rome is founded in 753 BC, and the Etruscan civilizationexpands in Italy.

Iron Age India enters the later Vedic period. Vedic ritual is annotated in many priestly schools in Brahmana commentaries, and the earliest Upanishads mark the beginning of Vedanta philosophy.

Around 730 BC, Osorkon IV succeeds Sheshonq IV as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt, and Piye succeeds his father Kashta as King of the Nubian kingdom of Napata.