Animated · Cross-Referenced · Tiered
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c. 2200–1500 BCE
The post-Flood dispersion, the Tower of Babel, and the call of Abraham from Ur.
c. 2100 BCE
Abraham leaves Ur of the Chaldees
Tier 1 · Scripturalc. 2000 BCE
Patriarchal-era legal customs (Nuzi tablets)
Tier 3 · Archaeologicalc. 1800 BCE
Israelites enter Egypt under Joseph
Tier 1 · Scripturalc. 1700 BCE
Hyksos rule in Egypt
Tier 2 · HistoricalGenesis 10 · cross-reference
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Cush
Nubia / Sudan
Mizraim
Egypt
Canaan
Levant
Havilah (Cushite)
Arabian / Red Sea coast
Nimrod
Babel, Erech, Akkad (Sumer)
Sidon
Phoenicia (Sidon)
Heth
Anatolia (Hittites)
Jebusite
Jerusalem
Amorite
Hill country, Levant
Elam
Persian plateau
Asshur
Assyria (N. Iraq)
Arphaxad
Upper Mesopotamia
Aram
Syria, Damascus
Uz
N. Arabia / Edom borderland
Hul
Armenia / Hule plain
Gether
Aramaean Syria
Mash
Mt Masius (Tur Abdin)
Shelah
Upper Mesopotamia
Eber
Mesopotamia
Peleg
Mesopotamia (Babel era)
Joktan
Southern Arabia
Almodad
Yemen
Sheleph
Yemen (Salif)
Hazarmaveth
Hadhramaut, Yemen
Jerah
S. Arabia (moon-cult region)
Hadoram
S. Arabia
Uzal
Sana'a, Yemen
Diklah
Date-palm oases, Arabia
Obal
Yemen
Abimael
S. Arabia
Sheba (Joktanite)
Saba, Yemen
Ophir
Arabian / Indian Ocean
Havilah (Joktanite)
Central Arabia
Jobab
S. Arabia