1000s BC (decade)

Decade

The 1000s BC is a decade which lasted from 1009 BC to 1000 BC.

Millennium
2nd millennium BC
Centuries
  • 12th century BC
  • 11th century BC
  • 10th century BC
Decades
  • 1020s BC
  • 1010s BC
  • 1000s BC
  • 990s BC
  • 980s BC
Years
  • 1009 BC
  • 1008 BC
  • 1007 BC
  • 1006 BC
  • 1005 BC
  • 1004 BC
  • 1003 BC
  • 1002 BC
  • 1001 BC
  • 1000 BC
Categories
  • Births
  • v
  • t
  • e
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 1000 BC.

Events and trends

  • 1006 BC—David becomes king of the ancient United Kingdom of Israel (traditional date). ( see [1])
  • Earliest evidence of farming in the Kenya highlands.
  • c. 1000 BC—Iron Age starts.
  • c. 1000 BC—The United Kingdom of Israel reaches its largest size, it is Israel's golden age.[2]
  • c. 1000 BC—Nok culture in Nigeria.
  • c. 1000 BC—Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
  • c. 1000 BC—Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Proto-Dravidian language, a classical language spoken in India.
  • c. 1000 BC—Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions.
  • 1000 BC—World population: 50,000,000[3]
  • 1000 BC—Priene, Western Anatolia is founded.
  • c. 1000 BC—Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages.
  • c. 1000 BC—Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia.
  • c. 1000 BC—Villanovans occupy the northern and western Italy.
  • c. 1000 BC—Phoenician alphabet is invented.
  • c. 1000 BC—Rice is cultivated in Vietnam.
  • 1000 BC—Early Horizon period starts in the Andes.
  • c. 1000 BC—Chavin culture starts in the Andes.
  • c. 1000 BC—Paracas culture starts in the Andes.
  • c. 1000 BC—Historical beginning of the peoples we later know as Illyrians[4]
  • c. 1000 BC—Rough carbon-14 dating of the Cherchen Man.

Significant people

  • Saul, king of Israel (1037 BC-1010 BC) (according to the Bible and Torah only. No real historical evidence)
  • David, king of the ancient Israelites (1006 BC–965 BC) (see [5]
  • Solomon, also king of Israel (see [6]
  • Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC)

References

  1. ^ https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2020/01/17/king-david-an-archaeological-biography/ |title = King David, An Archaeological Biography
  2. ^ "Israel's Golden Age". 16 February 2011.
  3. ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population Archived 2013-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, 1996, p. 39: "... the other hand, the beginnings of the Iron Age around 1000 BC is held to coincide with the formation of the historical Illyrian peoples. ..."
  5. ^ https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2020/01/17/king-david-an-archaeological-biography/%7Ctitle = King David, An Archaeological Biography
  6. ^ https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2020/01/17/king-david-an-archaeological-biography/%7Ctitle = King David, An Archaeological Biography