1000s BC

Events and trends

• 1006 BC — David becomes king of the ancient Israelites (traditional date).
• 1002 BC — Death of Zhou zhao wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 1001 BC — Zhou mo wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• Earliest evidence of farming in the Kenya highlands.
• c. 1000 BC — Bronze Age ends.
• c. 1000 BC — Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
• c. 1000 BC — Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India.
• c. 1000 BC — Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions.
• 1000 BC — World population: 50,000,000^[1]
  • 1000 BC — Priene, Western Turkey is founded.
  • c. 1000 BC — Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages.
  • c. 1000 BC — Saul.
  • c. 1000 BC — Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia.
  • c. 1000 BC — Iron is introduced in Ancient India.
  • Phoenician alphabet is invented.

  Significant people

  • David, king of the ancient Israelites (1006 BC–965 BC)
  • Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC)

  References

  1. ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population

  
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