1009–1000 BC

Events and trends

*1006 BC — David becomes king of the ancient Israelites (traditional date).
*1002 BC — Death of Zhou zhao wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
*1001 BC — Zhou mo wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
*Earliest evidence of farming in the Kenya highlands.
*c. 1000 BC — Bronze Age ends.
*c. 1000 BC — Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
*c. 1000 BC — Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India.
*c. 1000 BC — Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions.
*1000 BC — World population: 50,000,000 [an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's [http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html Historical Estimates of World Population] ]
*1000 BC — Priene, Western Turkey is founded.
*c. 1000 BC — Hungarian separates from its closest linguistic relatives, the Ob-Ugric languages.
*c. 1000 BC — Saul.
*c. 1000 BC — Ancient Iranian peoples enter Persia.
*c. 1000 BC — Iron is introduced in Ancient India.
*Phoenician alphabet is invented.

ignificant people

* David, king of the ancient Israelites (1006 BC–965 BC)
* Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC)

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