seh_ carried captive
to _Babylon_.

671. _Asserbadon_ invades _Egypt_. The government of _Egypt_ committed to
twelve princes.

668. The western nations of _Syria_, _Phoenicia_ and _Egypt_, revolt from
the _Assyrians_. _Asserhadon_ dies, and is succeeded by _Saosduchinus_.
_Manasseh_ returns from Captivity.

658. _Phraortes_ Reigns in _Media_. The _Prytanes_ Reign in _Corinth_,
expelling their Kings.

657. The _Corinthians_ overcome the _Corcyreans_ at sea: and this was the
oldest sea fight.

655. _Psammiticus_ becomes King of all _Egypt_, by conquering the other
eleven Kings with whom he had already reigned fifteen years: he reigned
about 39 years more. Henceforward the _Ionians_ had access into _Egypt_;
and thence came the _Ionian_ Philosophy, Astronomy and Geometry.

652. The first _Messenian_ war begins: it lasted twenty years.

647. _Charops_, the first decennial Archon of the _Athenians_. Some of
these Archons might dye before the end of the ten years, and the remainder
of the ten years be supplied by a new Archon. And hence the seven decennial
Archons might not take up above forty or fifty years. _Saosduchinus_ King
of _Assyria_ dies, and is succeeded by _Chyniladon_.

640. _Josiah_ Reigns in _Judaea_.

636. _Phraortes_> King of the _Medes_, is slain in a war against the
_Assyrians_. _Astyages_ succeeds him.

635. The _Scythians_ invade the _Medes_ and _Assyrians_.

633. _Battus_ builds _Cyrene_, where _Irasa_, the city of _Antaeus_, had
stood.

627. _Rome_ is built.

625. _Nabopolassar_ revolts from the King of _Assyria_, and Reigns over
_Babylon_. _Phalantus_ leads the _Parthenians_ into _Italy_, and builds
_Tarentum._

617. _Psammiticus_ dies. _Nechaoh_ reigns in _Egypt_.

611. _Cyaxeres_ Reigns over the _Medes_.

610. The Princes of the _Scythians_ slain in a feast by _Cyaxeres_.

609. _Josiah_ slain. _Cyaxeres_ and _Nebuchadnezzar_ overthrow _Nineveh_,
and, by sharing the _Assyrian_ Empire, grow great.

607. _Creon_ the first annual Archon of the _Athenians_. The second
_Messenian_ war begins. _Cyaxeres_ makes the _Scythians_ retire beyond
_Colchos_ and _Iberia_, and seizes the _Assyrian_ Provinces of _Armenia_,
_Pontus_ and _Cappadocia_.

606. _Nebuchadnezzar_ invades _Syria_ and _Judaea_.

604. _Nabopolassar_ dies, and is succeeded by his Son _Nebuchadnezzar_, who
had already Reigned two years with his father.

600. _Darius_ the _Mede_, the son of _Cyaxeres,_ is born.

599. _Cyr