1891 BC

Map 46: 1891 BC. Previous map: **1901 BC**. Next map: **1877 BC** (*Maps Index*)

**PONTOS**
**`Aratta**
**Caspian Saga**
**Alania**
**Tegarama**
**`Ariana**
***Massagetae***
**SCYTHIA**
**GETULIA**
**PALA**
***Rifati***
**Withelsleth**
**Hedua**
**Hyr.**
**FOMOIRE**
**Trebeta**
**GOTHICA**
**Sued.**
***FENNONES***
**MARI**
**Aus.**
**AMURRU**
**Liguria**
**Cimbrica**
**Liburnia**
**Subartu**
**Tracia**
**EPIRUS**
**MAKEDON**
**DALM.**
**AIG.**
**ARG.**
**NABATEA**
**MIDIAN**
**Arame**
**ZALP.**
**HAT.**
**BUR.**
**KA.**
**KU.**
**TUSCANIA**
**CELTICA**
**Italia**
**Trinacria**
**TAWY KEMET**
**Wawat**
**ACTE**
**Creta**
**KIENGIR**
**Rech.**
**Ala.**
**HESPERIA**
**Thess.**
**LIBYA**
**Albion**
**Celtiberia**
**CUR.**
**Taurisca**
**ESTONES**
**Celtoscythia**
**Winnilia**
**Livonia**
**Sitonia**
**Qua.**
**Mar.**
**Sen.**
**Rugia**
**Saxonia**
**SWABIA**
**SARMATIA**
**Nemed**
**Moesia**
**Luwia**
**Ham.**+
**Sus.**
**Lul.**
**SHI.**
**KANAAN**
**Bithynia**
**Vand.**
**Arratim**
**P.**
**SP.**
**ASH**
**ESH.**
**Isin**
**Edom**
**Goshen**
1891 BC - HOUSE OF YAKOB MOVE TO GOSHEN

## MAIN EVENTS

### 1901-1893 BC - Reign of Shu-Sin of Ur

Shu-Sin ravaged Simanum in 1899 BC, and Shalimahum became vassal king in Asshur. Shu-Sin built a defensive wall across Mesopotamia in 1898 BC as Amorites were already encroaching; in 1895 BC he sacked Zabshalli, while Ebarat, Tazitta, and Girmame ruled in Shimashki, where much of the fighting was occurring. In 1894 BC Ilushuma succeeded Shalimahum in Asshur.

### 1899-1880 BC - Reign of Senusret II in Kemet

In 1899 BC, Senusret II was elevated to coregent with Amenemhat II. His Vizier or Prime Minister (Cheti) was Joseph ben Yakob. In 1897 BC, Amenemhat II passed away, and Senusret II ruled alone in Kemet.

In Kush, Manturay Haqebi succeeded Bakundon Melis in 1891 BC, ruling to 1856 BC. Morie calls him Mentu-Ra and says he instituted sun worship in Kush, as well as the first law code.

### 1893 BC - Galathes given Trinacria

In 1893 BC Tuscus of Tuscania gave Trinacria (Sicily) as a fief to his half brother Galathes of Celtica who went there with colonists, leaving his son Narbon on the throne of Celtica.

### 1893-1871 BC - Reign of Ibbi-Sin in Ur

Ibbi-Sin succeeded Shu-Sin in 1893 BC in Senar, and Ebarat I of Shimashki formally annexed Susa and Anshan provinces in that year, where the Elamites had regained ground versus Ur. In 1891 BC, Ibbi-Sin ravaged Simurrum.

### 1892 BC - Seven years of famine begin

In 1892, the major Seven Years' Famine broke out across Kemet, Canaan and Mesopotamia. One result was that Ishbi-Erra (Mancaleus), an ethnic Amorite governor of Isin, declared independence and broke away from Ur over a grain dispute, and Ibbi-Sin was unable to prevent the influx of Amorites into Mesopotamia.

Kemet had fortunately prepared extra stocks of grain thanks to Joseph, and the entire tribe of Jacob (Israel), counted as 70 souls in Jubilees and Torah (or 75 as in Acts and LXX), packed up and moved from Beersheba, Kenean to live in Lower Egypt, the land of Goshen, in 1891 BC, the 6th year of Senusret II's solitary reign, the same year a delegation of 37 'Aamu from Shu' (Asiatics from south Kenean) led by the young Ishbi ben Asser, was depicted along with the vizier himself, visiting the Oryx nomarch in Upper Egypt who was complaining of eye pain.

(Note that although the tomb hieroglyphics label him as 'Foreign chief Ishbi', he is unlikely to be the same as the recently independent ruler of Isin in Mesopotamia, and more likely a young son of Asser, Gen. 46:17.)