History of the ancient Levant

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The

Sinai Peninsula
.

The Levant is one of the earliest centers of sedentism and agriculture throughout history, and some of the earliest agrarian cultures, Pre-Pottery Neolithic, developed in the region.[3][4][5] Previously regarded as a peripheral region in the ancient Near East, modern academia largely considers the Levant was a center of civilization on its own, independent of Mesopotamia and Egypt.[6][7] Throughout the Bronze and Iron ages, the Levant was home to many ancient Semitic-speaking peoples and kingdoms, and is considered by many to be the urheimat of Semitic languages.

History of the Levant
Prehistory
Ancient history
Classical antiquity
Middle Ages
Modern history

Stone Age

Main article: Prehistory of the Levant

Paleolithic

Anatomically modern

Homo sapiens are demonstrated at the area of Mount Carmel[8] in Canaan during the Middle Paleolithic dating from c. 90,000 BC. These migrants out of Africa seem to have been unsuccessful,[9] and by c. 60,000 BC in the Levant, Neanderthal groups seem to have benefited from the worsening climate and replaced Homo sapiens, who were possibly confined once more to Africa.[10][9]

A second move out of Africa is demonstrated by the Boker Tachtit Upper Paleolithic culture, from 52,000 to 50,000 BC, with humans at Ksar Akil XXV level being modern humans.[11] This culture bears close resemblance to the Badoshan Aurignacian culture of Iran, and the later Sebilian I Egyptian culture of c. 50,000 BC. Stephen Oppenheimer[12] suggests that this reflects a movement of modern human (possibly Caucasian) groups back into North Africa, at this time.

It would appear this sets the date by which Homo sapiens Upper Paleolithic cultures begin replacing Neanderthal

Antelian culture (late Aurignacian), as far as Southern Anatolia, with the Atlitan culture
.

Epi-Palaeolithic

After the

microlithic type implies a significant rupture in the cultural continuity of Levantine Upper Paleolithic. The Kebaran culture, with its use of microliths, is associated with the use of the bow and arrow and the domestication of the dog.[14] Extending from 18,000 to 10,500 BC, the Kebaran culture[15] shows clear connections to the earlier microlithic cultures using the bow and arrow, and using grinding stones to harvest wild grains, that developed from the c. 24,000 – c. 17,000 BC Halfan culture of Egypt, that came from the still earlier Aterian tradition of the Sahara. Some linguists see this as the earliest arrival of Nostratic languages
in the Middle East.

Kebaran culture was quite successful, and was ancestral to the later Natufian culture (12,500–9,500 BC), which extended throughout the whole of the Levantine region. These people pioneered the first sedentary settlements, and may have supported themselves from fishing and the harvest of wild grains plentiful in the region at that time. As of July 2018, the oldest remains of bread were discovered c. 12,400 BC at the archaeological site of Shubayqa 1, once home of the Natufian hunter-gatherers, roughly 4,000 years before the advent of agriculture.[16]

Natufian culture also demonstrates the earliest domestication of the

Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture
of Northern Iraq and Iran (which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran).

Neolithic and Chalcolithic

By 8500–7500 BC, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (

PPNB
), dwelling in square houses, coming from Northern Syria and the Euphrates bend.

During the period of 8500–7500 BC, another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt (particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone) was in Sinai. This

Martu and Akkadian
peoples of Mesopotamia.

In the

which?] also witnessed the development of megalithic structures, which continued into the Bronze Age.[19][dubious – discuss
]

Copper Age

Kish civilization

Main article: Kish civilization

The Kish civilization or Kish tradition is a concept created by

Akkadian empire in the 24th century BC.[23]

Bronze Age

See also: Bronze Age

Early and middle Bronze Age

Some recent scholars dealing with the Syrian part of the Levant during the

East Semitic-speaking kingdoms of Ebla, Nagar and the Mari. Ebla has been described as the world's first recorded superpower, controlling most of present-day Syria. At its greatest extent, Ebla controlled an area roughly half the size of modern Syria,[25] from Ursa'um in the north,[26][27] to the area around Damascus in the south,[28] and from Phoenicia and the coastal mountains in the west,[29][30] to Haddu in the east,[31]
and had more than sixty vassal kingdoms and city-states.

First kingdom of Ebla, c. 3000-2300 BC

Ebla and Mari were incorporated into the

4.2 kya aridification event around 2200 BC.[32] This event prompted the influx of nomadic Amorites into Sumer, and correlates with a subsequent influx and settlement expansion in many regions of Syria as well.[33] In the later periods of the Third Dynasty of Ur, immigrating Amorites had become such a force that the king of Ur, Shu-Sin, was obliged to construct a 270-kilometre (170 mi) wall dubbed "Repeller of the Amorites", extending in between the Tigris and Euphrates, to hold them off.[34][35][36] The Amorites are depicted in contemporary records as nomadic tribes under chiefs, who forced themselves into lands they needed to graze their herds. Some of the Akkadian literature of this era speaks disparagingly of the Amorites and implies that the urbanized people of Mesopotamia viewed their nomadic and primitive way of life with disgust and contempt. In the Sumerian myth "Marriage of Martu", written early in the 2nd millennium BC
, a goddess considering marriage to the god of the Amorites is warned:

Now listen, their hands are destructive and their features are those of monkeys; (An Amorite) is one who eats what (the Moon-god) Nanna forbids and does not show reverence. They never stop roaming about [...], they are an abomination to the gods’ dwellings. Their ideas are confused; they cause only disturbance. (The Amorite) is clothed in sack-leather [...], lives in a tent, exposed to wind and rain, and cannot properly recite prayers. He lives in the mountains and ignores the places of gods, digs up truffles in the foothills, does not know how to bend the knee (in prayer), and eats raw flesh. He has no house during his life, and when he dies he will not be carried to a burial-place. My girlfriend, why would you marry Martu?[37]

Three principal Syrian kingdoms: Mari, Qatna and Yamhad c. 18th century BC

The Amorites came to politically and culturally dominate much of the ancient Near East for centuries, and founded multiple kingdoms throughout the region including the Old Babylonian Empire.[33] Famed Amorites included Babylonian king Hammurabi and warlord Shamshi-Adad I.[38] After the decline of the Third dynasty of Ur, Amorite rulers gained power in a number of Mesopotamian city-states beginning in the Isin-Larsa period and peaking in the Old Babylonian period.

In southern Mesopotamia,

Habiru, traditionally worked as mercenaries.[43][44]

Amorite elements were also to be found in Egypt with the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt of the Nile Delta, whose rulers bore distinctly Amorite names such as Yakbim. The Hyksos, who overran Egypt and founded the Fifteenth dynasty, were an amalgam of Levantine elements including the Amorites.[45][46]

Foreign rule

An Asiatic official from Avaris wearing the mushroom-headed hairstyle

By the 16th and 15th centuries BC, most of the major urban centers in the

Sealand Dynasty.[51] In Egypt, Ahmose I managed to expel the Levantine Hyksos rulers from power, pushing Egypt's borders further into Canaan.[52] The Amorites were eventually absorbed by another West Semitic-speaking people known collectively as the Ahlamu. The Arameans
rose to be the prominent group amongst the Ahlamu, and from c. 1200 BC on, the Amorites disappeared from the pages of history.

Between 1550 and 1170 BC, much of the Levant was contested between

Habiru, who were seen as 'mighty enemies'.[53][54] Egyptian control over the southern Levant completely collapsed in the wake of the Late Bronze Age collapse.[56]

Late Bronze Age collapse

Main article: Late Bronze Age collapse

During the 12th century BC, between c. 1200 and 1150, all of these powers suddenly collapsed. Centralized state systems collapsed, and the region was hit by famine. Chaos ensued throughout the region, and many urban centers were burnt to the ground by famine-struck natives[57] and an assortment of raiders known as the Sea Peoples, who eventually settled in the Levant. The Sea Peoples' origins are ambiguous and many theories have proposed them to be Trojans, Sardinians, Achaeans, Sicilians or Lycians.[58][59][60][61]

Urban centers which survived Hittite and Egyptian expansions in 1600 BC, including Alalakh, Ugarit, Megiddo and Kadesh, were razed to the ground and were never rebuilt. The Hittite empire was destroyed, and its capital Tarḫuntašša was razed to the ground. Egypt repelled its attackers with only a major effort, and over the next century shrank to its territorial core, its central authority permanently weakened.

Iron Age

North

Despite the tumultuous beginning of the

destruction at the end of the Bronze Age collapsed most major polities and city-states of the Bronze Age. The early Iron Age in Syria and Mesopotamia saw a dispersal of settlements and ruralization, with the appearance of large numbers of hamlets, villages, and farmsteads.[63] After the fall of the Hittite empire, a conglomeration of West Semitic, Hittite and Luwian-speaking kingdoms known as the Syro-Hittite states were established in northern Syria after 1180 BC, with dynastic links between the Hittite ruling dynasty and the lords of Melid and Carchemish.[64][65][66][67]

Aramaean states in eastern Syria and Mesopotamia

Qedar ruled from.[68][75][74] One such example is the land of Laqē near Terqa, mentioned in a inscription by Adad-nirari II (911–891 BC), where Aramaean and Arab clans formed a confederacy.[68][74]

Along the coast of northern Canaan, the

Iberia.[29][76] One prominent colony, Carthage (from Punic qrt-ḥdšt, meaning 'New City'), would eventually become an independent city-state which quarrelled with the Roman Republic over control of the Mediterranean.[77][29][78]
The Phoenicians transmitted their alphabetic system across the maritime networks, which was eventually adopted and developed into Greek alphabet and Latin alphabet.[29]

South

Kingdoms of the southern Levant c. 9th century BC

During the Iron Age, various groups inhabited the southern Levant, with the Philistines and the Hebrews/Israelites emerging as the most renowned among them.[79] Dispersed pastoral nomadic groups in the began to settle down in the 11th century.[2] In Palestine, the Israelites gradually established many small communities that dotted the central highlands,[80] while the Philistines, a group of Aegean immigrants arrived in the southern shore of Canaan around 1175 BCE and settled there.[80] Further west, the Levantine coast was settled by the Sea Peoples, notably the Philistines around today's Gaza Strip.[81][82]

The 10th and 9th centuries BCE saw the emergence of several territorial kingdoms in the southern Levant. Two Israelite kingdoms emerged: the Kingdom of Israel, which ruled over the areas of Samaria, Galilee, Sharon and parts of Transjordan, and had its capital for the most of its history in the city of Samaria,[83] and the Kingdom of Judah, which controlled the Judaean Mountains, most of the Shfela, and the northern Naqab, and had its capital in Jerusalem.[84]

In Transjordan, three kingdoms—Moab, Ammon and Edom—began to arise at about the same period.[85][86]

Encroaching expansions

Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire before (purple) and after (purple and blue) Tiglath-Pileser's reign (745–727 BC)[87]

Unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Iron Age Levant was characterized by patches of scattered kingdoms and tribal confederations which originated from the same cultural and linguistic milieu, and was much less densely populated than either.[2] Occasionally, these closely related entities united against expanding outer forces, notably in the Battle of Qarqar (853 BC) which saw an alliance of Aramaeans, Phoenicians, Israelites, Ammonites and Arabs united against the Assyrians under Shalmaneser III (859–824 BC).[88][89] The alliance, led by Hadadezer of Aram-Damascus, brought to a halt the Assyrian campaign, which boasted an army of 120,000 soldiers active in Syria.[90][74]

By 843 BC the political situation in central and southern Syria changed radically, after

eastern Jordan in the process.[68] Hazael survived Assyrian attempts to subjugate Aram-Damascus and also expanded his influence in northern Syria, where he reportedly crossed the Orontes river and seized territories as far as Aleppo.[68][91][92][93] These northern forays allowed Hazael to control much of Syria and Palestine, from Egypt to the Euphrates.[94] Hazael's power far exceeded that of former Aramean kings, and some scholars consider his state to have been a nascent empire.[94]

The Assyrians, who had larger resources of manpower than the Levant,[74] only managed to subdue the Levantine states after multiple attempts and campaigns that were finalized under Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BC).[95][68][96][97][98][87][99][100] In 734 BC, when a wide-scale revolt against the Assyrians broke out in the coastal cities, Levantine states had been split into two axes: an anti-Assyrian axis that included Damascus–Tyre–Samaria–the Arabs; and a pro-Assyrian axis which included Arwad, Ashqalon and Gaza joined by Judah, Ammon, Moab and Edom.[74] The Assyrian axis quickly dissolved due to the agitation of the anti-Assyrian axis, who also started the famous Syro-Ephraimite War in order to force Judah to join them.[74] The anti-Assyrian forces were eventually crushed by 732 BC.[74] Aram-Damascus was annexed and its population was deported; Hamath was razed to the ground and Arameans were prohibited from rebuilding it;[101] the Kingdom of Israel based in Samaria was destroyed and, according to Biblical accounts, the city's population was deported into Assyrian captivity.[102]

The fierce resistance and fighting capabilities of the Arameans convinced the Assyrian kings to incorporate them into the army, namely the tribes of Gurru and Itu'u.[103] By the time of Shalmaneser V (727–722 BC), these tribes were an essential part of the empire, and were given the task of securing the empire's peripheries. The Aramaean identity of these tribes probably contributed to the consolidation of Aramaic's prestigious status as the empire's lingua franca.[95]

At their height, the Assyrians dominated all of the Levant,

New Kingdom of Babylonia and the Iranian Medes at the Battle of Carchemish. The Chaldeans, who had migrated from the Levant after 940 BC, are often considered a closely related people to the Aramaeans.[68][104] After the Battle of Carchemish, Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple (597 BC), starting the period of the Babylonian captivity, which lasted about half a century. Nebuchadnezzar also besieged the Phoenician city of Tyre
for 13 years (586–573 BC).

The subsequent balance of power was, however, short-lived. In the 550s BC, the Achaemenids revolted against the Medes and gained control of their empire, and over the next few decades annexed the realms of Lydia, Damascus, Babylonia, and Egypt into their empire, consolidating control as far as India. This vast kingdom was divided up into various satrapies and governed roughly according to the Assyrian model, but with a far lighter hand. Babylon became one the empire's four capitals, and the lingua france was Aramaic. Around this time Zoroastrianism became the predominant religion in Persia.

Classical Age

Hellenistic rule

Seleucid Empire with its capital at Antioch

Phoenicians frequently rebelled against the Persians, who taxed them heavily, in contrast to the Judeans who were granted return from the exile by Cyrus the Great. The campaigns of Xenophon in 401-399 BC illustrated how very vulnerable Persia had become to armies organized along Greek lines. Eventually, such an army under Alexander the Great conquered the Levant in 333-332 BC. However, Alexander did not live long enough to consolidate his realm, and soon after his death in 323 BC, the greater share of the east eventually went to the descendants of Seleucus I Nicator. Seleucus built his capital Seleucia in 305, but the capital was later moved to Antioch
in 240 BC.

When Alexander and later the

Hellenistic culture developed as a fusion of ancient Greek culture and local cultures of Syria, Babylonia and Egypt. The Seleucid kings would also adopt the title 'Basileus (King) of Syria'.[105][106]
Hellenistic settlements established by Alexander and his Seleucid successors in the Levant include:

The Greek settlers would be used to form the Seleucid

Asia Minor, they generally eschewed recruiting native Aramean Syrians and Babylonians. This was presumably from a desire not to train and arm the people who were an overwhelming majority in the trade and governmental centers of the Empire in Antioch and Babylon, which would have undermined the empire's very existence in case of revolt.[106] However, recruitment policy would become less strict by time of the Roman–Seleucid war.[106]

Seleucid domains by 87 BC

Resurgence of local kingdoms

The Seleucids gradually lost their domains in Bactria to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and in Iran and Mesopotamia to the rising Parthian Empire. Eventually, this limited Seleucid domains to the Levant, and the power decline would lead to the formation of several breakaway states in the Levant.

In the north, Greco-Iranian satrap Ptolemaeus declared himself the king of Commagene in 163 BC,[112] while the Arab Abgarids ruled Osroene independently since 132 BC.[113][114] The Maccabean Revolt in Palestine inaugurated the Hasmonean kingdom in 140 BCE.[115] The Nabataeans further south had maintained their kingdom since the 3rd century BC.[116] This rendered the Seleucids a weak, vulnerable state limited to parts of Syria and Lebanon.

Roman period

The

Nabatea was incorporated as Arabia Petraea
in 106 CE.

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries, the

Philo of Alexandria. Christianity initially emerged as a sect of Judaism and finally as an independent religion by the mid-second century. Gnosticism
also took significant hold in the region.

The region of

Cestius Gallus sent the Syrian army, based on Legio X Fretensis and Legio XII Fulminata reinforced by vexillationes of IV Scythica and VI Ferrata, to restore order in Judaea and quell the revolt, but suffered a defeat in the Battle of Beth Horon. However, XII Fulminata fought well in the last part of the war, and supported its commander Vespasian in his successful bid for the imperial throne.[118] Two generations later, the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136) erupted once again, after which the province Syria Palaestina
was created in 132.

Palmyrene Empire in 271

During the

Tanukhid allies in Syria.[119][127]

Following the permanent division of the Roman Empire in 391, the Levantine provinces became part of the

Ghassanid Arabs. The Ghassanids became a client state of the Byzantines, and served as a bulwark against Sassanid incursions and raids by nomads.[128] With the consolidation of Christianity, Jews had become a minority in southern Levant, remaining a majority only in Southern Judea, Galilee and Golan. Jewish revolts had also become much rarer, mostly with the Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus (351–352) and Jewish revolt against Heraclius (617). This time the Samaritans, whose population swelled to over a million, insurrected the Samaritan revolts (484–572) against the Byzantines, which killed an estimated 200,000 Samaritans,[129] after the civil uprising of Baba Rabba
and his subsequent execution in 328/362.

The devastating Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 ended with Byzantine recapture of the land, but left the empire rather exhausted, which taxed the inhabitants heavily. The Levant became the frontline between the Byzantines and the Persian Sassanids, which devastated the region.[130][131][132] The war triggered the displacement of many inhabitants from Syria and Palestine to Egypt, and from there to Carthage and Sicily,[133] although archaeological evidence suggests smooth continuity and little displacement of the overall population.[134]

Muslim conquest and period

Eastern Roman control over the Levant lasted until 636 when Arab armies conquered the Levant, after which it became a part of the Rashidun Caliphate and was known as Bilād ash-Shām.

Under the Umayyads, the capital was moved to Damascus. However, the Levant did not experience wide-scale Arabian tribal settlement unlike in Iraq, where the focus of Arabian tribal migration was. Archaeological and historical evidence strongly suggest there was smooth population continuity and no large-scale abandonment of major sites and regions of the Levant after the Muslim conquest.[131][135][136][137] Moreover, in contrast to Iran, Iraq and North Africa, where Muslim soldiers established separate garrison cities (amsar), Muslim troops in the Levant settled alongside locals in pre-existing cities such as Damascus, Homs, Jerusalem and Tiberias.[138] The Umayyads also relied on the native Syrian Arab tribes for their military, who oversaw a recruitment policy that resulted in considerable numbers of tribesmen and frontier peasants filling the ranks of the regular and auxiliary forces.[139] These were Arab tribes who inhabited the Levant before Islam, and included tribes such as Lakhm, Judham, Ghassan, Amilah, Balqayn, Salih and Tanukh.[139] When the Abbasids moved the capital to Baghdad in 750, this exposed the Muslim Arabs to the challenge of the strong and well-articulated identity of Iran, whereas in Damascus, they had only to contend with the numerous parochial and fractured identities of the Levant.[140]

Abbasid focus on Iraq and Iran neglected the Levant, which in turn experienced a period of frequent uprisings and revolts. Syria became fertile grounds for anti-Abbasid sentiments, in various contrasting pro-Umayyad and pro-Shiite forms. In 841,

Khuzestan, Yemen, Egypt and Maghreb.[143] From Salamiyah, Isma'ili Imam Abd Allah al-Mahdi Billah moved to Sijilmasa in Morocco in 904, where his missionaries were active in proselytizing Berber tribes, eventually establishing the Fatimid empire by 909.[144][145]

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