2352 BC

Map 9 - 2352 BC. Previous map: **2378 BC**. Next map: **2337 BC** (*Maps Index*)

*Tina*
*Ma'ot*
*Gedir*
***GALLIA
TERR.***
**KHAMAZI**
**Panthos**
***Pelasgi***
***WESTERN ISLES
TERR.***
**KENE'AN**
**KHETI**
**Martu**
**Khefturi**
***W. Pel.***
**`ARATTA SAGA**
**Caspian Saga**
***Alani***
**Tegarama**
**`Ariana**
**KIENGIR**
**Khanigalbat**
**`UriKi**
**Kish**
***Massagetae***
**`Abowa**
**MAGOGIA**
**Fenninga**
**`Aistia**
**Gethica**
**Sweona**
**Rhodis**
**Ters.**
**TOBELIA**
**RITHIN**
***`ALBIONA
TERR.***
**Solima**
**`Araba**
**Urim**
**SHUS.**
**SUBUR**
**`OTS**
**`Scythia**
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***Galli***
**RASENNA**
**SAMOTHEA**
**YAWANA**
**TAWY**
**AFRICA**
**GETULIA**
**Theissica**
**Danica**
**Albia**
**TUYSCONIA**
**Adula**
**Istria**
**Jadera**
**Sala**
**Saba**
**Dalm.**
**Moesia**
**Epirus**
**Tsarmautia**
**MAEONIA**
**RIPHATHI**
**HYR**
**Tiras**
**EMA.**
**ARC.**
**CIM.**
**Withelsleth**
**Alashia**
**Hedua**
2352 BC - WARS AND SLAVERY RETURN TO EARTH

## MAIN EVENTS

### 2376 BC - Founding of Ur

In 2376 BC, the city of Ur was founded by Ur son of Kesed of the Kasdim tribe of Arphaxad, and Serug was born to Reu and Ura, daughter of Ur. (*Jubilees*)

### 2376 BC - Kish-Elam war

2376 BC also marks the return of battles being fought on earth for the first time since 2755 BC, beginning with Mebarasi of Kish (Kambiros), whose force defeated an Elamite army that had formed against him and confined their border to the Zagros. The captives also marked the return of slavery to the world economy since 2755 BC. (*Sumerian Kinglist, Jub., Bar Hebr., Mich. Syr.*)

### 2375 BC - Uruk-Kish war

In 2375 BC however, Dumuzid of Uruk captured Mebarasi (Enmebaragesi), who was then succeeded in Kish by his son Aga (Ag), Kish again briefly recognizing Uruk's primacy. (*Sumerian Kinglist*)

### 2374-2368 BC - Revolt in Senar

Aga of Kish seems to have resumed independence, and also obtained kingship over Umma, disputing Nippur and other cities with Dumuzid. In 2374 BC, Dumuzid, presiding in opulence in Uruk over an impoverished nation, was toppled by a revolt in Uruk, Ur, Nippur, Adab and Akshak. Dumuzid was eventually pursued to Harran, where he was finally betrayed in 2368 BC by Inanna -- formerly queen to Scythes of Aratta and then to Enmerkar -- into the hands of the rebels, led by Bel Shameen, later known as Gilgamesh and Belus, who would be crowned king of Uruk and defeat his principle rival Aga of Kish. (*Sumerian Dumuzid literature, Cave of Treasures, Bar Hebraeus, Michael the Syrian*)

### 2374-2323 BC - Joktanite conflict

In 2374 BC when Peleg, father of Reu, passed away, no doubt in the Ur area, the news brought a disturbance among his nephews then in Europe, the sons of Joktan, some of whom may have felt they were still entitled to something in the inheritance of Arphachsad, where their brother Havilah was already dwelling. Aventinus says Sarmatia (Hazarmaveth) was the first to field an army; Saba and Ophir were among the first leaders of the Joktanites to make weapons, using them to fight other unspecified nations until they were granted lands in Asia (*Michael the Syrian, Bar Hebraeus*) -- Saba (with Obal) settling in Yemen, near where their brother Havilah was already, and Ophir on the Indus.

Meanwhile it seems Barwain departed Hyrcania for the Far East (Heliochora or Yandi) in 2368 BC, where he was defeated by the Youxiong tribe at Banquan, and fled to Awan in 2342 BC. *Defloratio* likewise mentions Janus II (Barwain) leading colonists to settle Yemen in 2323 BC, which may mean by that year the conflict was ended by Barwain's intervention, and by the agreement to grant Saba lands in the inheritance of Arphachsad, and Ophir in that of Elam -- governed by Barwain since 2342 BC.

Because of Barwain's Elamite alliance with Scythes of Scythia, the most plausible scenario is that the Joktanite forces of Saba and Ophir assembled in Sarmatia alongside the Sarmatians, from there attacking the Scythians until they were bought off by Barwain. The Scythian claim to be in Asia had derived from the land given Madai in the Araxes valley by Asshur in 2453 BC. But by now the Scythians had expanded well beyond that grant, occupying land from Shem's allotment as far as the Don. This could explain why the Joktanites who wished to resettle in Asia felt entitled to try settling the account with Scythia. Also, 71 years after the confusion, ie. in 2353 BC, Gomer II, a son of Togarmah, and his people occupied the Crimean peninsula, although they evidently moved on to Jutland by 2333 BC, per Petreius Hafniensis. Connecting all the dots, we can speculate that this occupation of Crimea would have been seen as only a further encroachment by Scythians (mostly Japhethites but under a Kushite dynasty) on lands then assigned to Hazarmaveth son of Joktan.

### 2368 BC - Uruk defeats Kish

In 2368 BC, after the demise of Dumuzid, Bel Shameen or Bilgamesh from among the rebelling party (the 'Phantoms') was elevated to the kingship in Uruk, and within a year he defeated and captured Aga of Kish, who came to seige Uruk. Belshameen thereby subjugated Kish as well as Nippur, the new 'holy city', to his control, ending 7 years of conflict. (*SKL; Gilgamesh literature; Tummal; Mich. Syr.*)

The independent king of Ur at this time was the *lugal* Ur-Pabilsag, who could well be the same as the above-mentioned founder of Ur from Arpachsad. The 'Royal Standard of Ur' is known from his tomb.

### 2365 BC - Gomer returns from Scythia to Gomera

In 2365 BC, Gomer returned from Scythia to his kingdom in Gomera (Janigena), bringing with him the art of making chariots pulled by horse, and wagons serving as mobile homes. The city of Vetulonia was founded by him around this time. In 2362 BC, Gomer passed and was succeeded by Ochus. (*Defloratio; Annius*)

### 2352 BC - Migrations from Canaan to Balkans

Around 2352 BC, the tribe of Tiras, and the Canaanite tribes of Hamath and Arkad migrated to the Balkans together, from their settlements in Martu. Tiras sailed from Tyre to Tyras at the mouth of the Dniester; Hamath from Hamat to Emathia, later Macedonia, and Arkad from Arqat to Arcadia, now the Peloponnese. This was the foundation of Aigialea, later Sicyon. The Pelasgi, who were already in the Aegean area, probably overran the uninhabited middle regions of Thessaly and Attica at this time. (*Defloratio; Eusebius*)