INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD
| ASSYRIAN CONQUEST | 722 BC | |||
| BABYLONIAN EXILE | 586-539 BC | |||
| PERSIAN PERIOD | 539-332 BC | |||
| Cyrus the Great | Released captives | 537-535 BC | ||
| Zerubbabel | Rebuilt Temple | 516 BC | ||
| Ezra | Restored Law | 458 BC | ||
| Nehemiah | Rebuilt Walls of Jerusalem | 445 BC | ||
| GREEK PERIOD | 332-142 BC | |||
| UNITED GREEK EMPIRE | Alexander the Great | 332-323 BC | ||
| EGYPTIAN GREEKS | Ptolemaic Dynasty | 320-198 BC | ||
| SYRIAN GREEKS | Seleucid Dynasty | 198-142 BC | ||
| MACCABEAN KINGDOM | 142-37 BC | |||
| REVOLUTION begun by | Mattathias, Maccabees | 167 BC | ||
| TEMPLE RESTORED | Hanukah | 165 BC | ||
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POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE |
Under Hasmonian Kings | 142 BC | ||
| ROMAN CONTROL | Hasmonians puppets | 63 BC | ||
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ROMAN EMPIRE |
37 BC-AD 135 | |||
| Herod Family appointed | "Kings of Israel" | 37 BC–AD 6 | ||
| Roman Governors sent by | Emperor and Senate | AD 5 - 135 |
