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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Entertainment: Iliad and Odyssey composed from oral traditions (725 BC)
• Deaths: Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria (728 or 727 BC), Shalmaneser V of Assyria (722 BC)

Africa

• Egypt: Ethiopian kings rule Egypt forming 25th (Nubian) dynasty 50 682 BC) (725 - 722 BC)

Asia

• China: Period of loose confederations (722 BC)

Middle East

• Assyria: Death of Tiglath-pileser who subjugated Syria and Philistia (728 or 727 BC)
  Death of Shalmaneser V (722 BC)
  Sargon II begins to reign - goes on to conquer Israel (721 BC)
• Babylon: Assyrian occupation begins (729 BC)
• Iran: Foundation of the kingdom of Media to 549 BC
• Israel: Shalmaneser V of Assyria carries may Israelites captive (724 - 723 BC)
  End of Samarian rule of Israel with 10,000 dead (723-721 BC)
  Sargon II of Assyria conquers Israel - ten tribes led captive (722, 721, or 720 BC)
• Samaria: Samaria captured by Assyria (723 BC)
  Destruction by Sargon II of Assyria (722 BC)