Kingdom of Ma'in

Kingdom of Ma'in was a state in Arabia (Middle East) that lasted from c. 800 to 100 BCE, about 700 years. Its people spoke Semitic languages (Akkadian, Amorite, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya).

Minaean kingdom of the Jawf valley whose merchants ran the incense caravans to the Mediterranean, with a trading colony at Dedan. Saba absorbed it around 100 BCE.

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Facts

Dates

c. 800 to 100 BCE

Duration

700 years

Type

State

Region

Arabia, Middle East

Language family

Semitic

Capital

Qarnaw

Events in Middle East during its time

• 722 BCE Assyria conquers Samaria
• 612 BCE Fall of Nineveh
• 587 BCE Destruction of Jerusalem
• 539 BCE Cyrus takes Babylon
• 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela

Neighbours in Middle East

• Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE
• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE
• Achaemenid Empire 550 to 330 BCE
• Empire of Alexander the Great 334 to 312 BCE
• Kingdom of Saba c. 1000 BCE to 275 CE
• Greek cities of Asia Minor c. 1050 to 129 BCE
• Kingdom of Iberia (Kartli) c. 302 BCE to 580 CE
• Phoenician city-states c. 1200 to 332 BCE
• Himyarite Kingdom c. 110 BCE to 525 CE
• Roman Anatolia 133 BCE to 395 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe
• Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE, Central and North Asia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE, North and West Africa
• Western Han 202 BCE to 9 CE, East Asia
• Athens 508 to 322 BCE, Europe
• Maurya Empire 322 to 185 BCE, South Asia
• Qin dynasty 221 to 206 BCE, East Asia

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