>Israel was an ancient kingdom in part of what is now
>Israel, roughly 1250 BCE-586 BCE (the Babylonian
>exile). David was King of it, circa 1000 BCE.
>
>See:
>http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook06.html
>Bad source. Israel was indeed "an ancient kingdom in part
of what is now Israel," but its dates are roughly 927-721 BCE. Its first king was Jeroboam I, the leader of a popular revolution against the "United Kingdom of Judah and Israel" four years after the death of its Great King, Solomon. It ended with conquest by the Assyrians, who deported its population (the "ten lost tribes") to northern Mesopotamia and the transCaucasus region (planting the seeds for the last great Jewish state, the Khazar empire, which lasted from the eighth century CE until the Mongol invasions of the eleventh-twelfth centuries). David was the second king of the "United Kingdom" whose first king was Saul (c. 1020) and last was Solomon's son Rehoboam, whose successors ruled the rump kingdom of Judea until the deportation of much of its population to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586.
>--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
>>
>> Her history teacher handed out the curriculum for
>> 6th grade "World
>> History"; here it is:
>>
>> The Ice Man
>> Early Humans
>> Beginning of Agriculture
>> Case studies:
>> Mesopotamia
>> Israel
>> Egypt
>> Kush and Nok
>> India
>> China
>> Phoenicia and Greece
>> Rome
>>
>> Israel?
>>
> > Joanna
> >