History of Israel part 1 1.            From 1550 to 1180 BCE, Canaan, the ancient part of Israel, was controlled by the New Kingdom of Egypt. 2.            Ancestors of the Israelites may have included Semites native to Canaan and the Sea Peoples. 3.            Recorded history mentions a battle in 1457 BCE, at Megiddo where Egyptians under Pharoh Thutmose III defeated a Canaanite coalition with...

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History of Russia 1.    Slavic tribes were the ancestors of modern Russia. The first Russian state was founded when they elected a Viking chieftain to be their prince in 862 in the area between the Volga and Dnieper river basins and gradually expanded the state into the areas of Asian nomadic steppe people 2.    In 882 Prince Oleg of Novgorod seized Kiev, bringing the...

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