South Semitic peoples of Yemen

South Semitic peoples of Yemen appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Arabia (Middle East) from c. 3200 to 1000 BCE, a span of more than 2,200 years. Its people spoke Semitic languages (Akkadian, Amorite, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya).

Bronze Age farmers of the Yemeni highlands who terraced hillsides and built early irrigation works. Their descendants founded the incense kingdoms of South Arabia.

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Facts

Dates

c. 3200 to 1000 BCE

Duration

more than 2,200 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Arabia, Middle East

Language family

Semitic

Became

• Kingdom of Saba c. 1000 BCE to 275 CE

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

• 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
• Middle Assyrian Empire 1365 to 912 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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