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870s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (135 words) |
 | 879 BC - Death of Zhou yi wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. |
| 878 BC - Zhou li wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. |
| 874 BC - Osorkon II succeeds Takelot as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt. |
| Omri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (693 words) |
| In foreign affairs, this period paralleled the rise of the Kingdom of Aram based in Damascus, and Israel soon found itself at war in the northeast. |
| Most threatening, however, was the ascendancy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the Battle of Karkar (853 BC), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of local kings, including Ahab, was the first clash between Assyria and Israel. |
| It was the first in a series of wars that would eventually lead to the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BC and the reduction of the Kingdom of Judah to an Assyrian tributary state. |
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