2500 BCE: Indus Valley civilization in India
1900 BCE: Indus Valley civilization collapses.
1600 BCE: Mt. Thera erupts and hastens the decline of Minoan civilization based in Crete, modern-day Santorini.
1550 BCE: The Hyksos are expelled from Egypt and by 1500 BCE Egypt’s direct control reaches the Euphrates. Canaan is under the rule of pharaohs.
1500 BCE: considered the earliest possible date of human settlement in Sāmoa based on Lapita pottery sherds from Mulifanua.
Perhaps this is the beginning of the Tagaloa period.
This is also the beginning of the Vedic Period in India.
1450 BCE: Hypothetically, Tagaloa’s grandson Lu-Fasi-‘Aitu may have begun his reign in this period. The Fale’ula / Sacred House “descends from heaven” and the stage is set for the first kingship of Sāmoa.
1400: Hypothetically, the Tu’i Manu’a bloodline receives the kingship from the Lu bloodline.
1391: Moses’ hypothesized birth according to Rabbinical traditions.
1372: Akhenaten is pharaoh and his religious reforms mean that the sun disk, the Aten, becomes the primary focus of Egyptian worship.
1351: Moses becomes “great” (40 years old) and is adopted by Beth-paro / pharaoh’s daughter.
1335: Smenkhkare is co-regent with Akhenaten.
1334: Neferneferuaten, a female pharaoh, reigns.
1332: Akhenaten’s son Tutankhamen ascends as pharaoh.
1311: Moses begins his ministry at 80.
1295: Muwatallis II rules the Hittites. Establishes an understanding with pharaoh Seti I to ease tensions with Egypt in Canaan.
1282: Muršili III rules the Hittites.
1279: Rameses II, The Great, reigns.
1275: Muršili III is deposed by his uncle Hattušili III. Flees to Egypt where his cousin Maathorneferure is Great Royal Wife of Rameses II.
1274: Muwatallis II battles Rameses II at Kadesh.
1271: Moses’ hypothesized death.
1259: Hattušili III and Rameses III craft first attested peace treaty in recorded history, which would eventually lead to an alliance.
1187: Rameses III reigns.
750 BCE: Beginning of Sāmoan “Dark Age” after transition from pottery to plant fiber economy.
600-500 BCE: Vedic Period ends. Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha, is born and Buddhism spreads from India into China and Southeast Asia.
200 BCE: Buddhism reaches Malaysia
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0: Birth of Christ
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500 CE: Buddhism reaches Indonesia.
570 CE: Muhammad is born.
610 CE: Islam is founded.
632 CE: Muhammad dies.
674 CE: Islam reaches the coast of the Malay Peninsula.
700 CE: Islam reaches Indonesia.
1100 CE: End of Sāmoan “Dark Age”.
1400 CE: Pulotu
1450 CE: Nafanua
1500 CE: Salamāsina
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