Arabian pastoral nomads

Arabian pastoral nomads appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Arabia (Middle East) from c. 3200 to 900 BCE, a span of more than 2,300 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Herders of sheep, goats and cattle moving between the steppe and the oases as the peninsula dried out. The camel was domesticated toward the end of this period and opened the deep desert.

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Facts

Dates

c. 3200 to 900 BCE

Duration

more than 2,300 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Arabia, Middle East

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Became

• Arab Bedouin tribes c. 900 BCE to the present

Events in Middle East during its time

• 3200 BCE Writing invented at Uruk
• 2334 BCE Sargon founds the Akkadian Empire
• 2004 BCE Elamites sack Ur
• 1754 BCE Code of Hammurabi
• 1595 BCE Hittites sack Babylon
• 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh
• 1177 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse
• 1050 BCE Phoenician alphabet

Neighbours in Middle East

• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE
• Old Babylonian Empire 1894 to 1595 BCE
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE
• Akkadian Empire c. 2334 to 2154 BCE
• Ebla c. 3000 to 1600 BCE
• Kingdom of Saba c. 1000 BCE to 275 CE
• Old Elamite period c. 2700 to 1500 BCE
• Mari c. 2900 to 1761 BCE
• Greek cities of Asia Minor c. 1050 to 129 BCE
• Phoenician city-states c. 1200 to 332 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• Old Kingdom of Egypt c. 2686 to 2181 BCE, North and West Africa
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa

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