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Moments in History

An 1842 painting by David Roberts depicting the Dome of the Rock
c.1800 BC: Arrival of the
1 the ruins of the Temple in AD 691.
Hebrew Tribes
Jews and Christians were allowed to
Excavations in and around Jericho visit as pilgrims until the 10th century.
show human habitation in 10,000 BC.
1099: Crusaders
According to the Hebrew Bible, 5
Abraham (c.1800 BC) journeyed Capture Jerusalem
to Canaan and bought the Cave of The First Crusade, launched in 1095,
the Patriarchs in Hebron. Biblical sought to conquer the Holy Land for
events can be corroborated with the Christendom. After the capture of
archeological record from around Jerusalem in 1099, many Jewish and
King David’s time (c.1000 BC). Muslim residents were massacred.
The Muslim general Saladin (Salah
586 BC: Babylonian Exile
2 al-Din) retook Jerusalem in 1187;
The Babylonians conquered
Christian rule in the Holy Land ended
the Kingdom of Judea from 597 BC. with the fall of Akko (Acre) in 1291.
The First Temple, built by Solomon,
was destroyed, the Ark of the
Covenant lost forever, and many
Jews exiled to Babylonia.
AD 70: Destruction of
3
the Second Temple
Cyrus the Great of Persia allowed the
Jews to return to Jerusalem, where
they built the Second Temple in the 6th
century BC. Herod the Great began a
reconstruction of the Temple in 22 BC,
but it was destroyed by the Romans
during a Jewish revolt (AD 66–70).
638: Arrival of Islam
4
Six years after Mohammad’s
death, Muslim armies defeated the
Byzantines to conquer Jerusalem.
The Dome of the Rock was built on Painting of Crusaders in Jerusalem

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