Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades: 800s BC 790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC - 750s BC - 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC
750s BC - Events and trends.
756 BC - Founding of Cyzicus.
755 BC - Ashur-nirari V succeeds Ashur-Dan III as king of Assyria
755 BC - Aeschylus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon.
753 BC - Alcmaeon, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 2 years. He is re ...
This period is characterised by the country's fracturing kingship. Even in Rameses's day, his dynasty (the Twentieth) was losing its grip on power in the city of Thebes, whose priests were becoming increasingly powerful. After his death, his successor Smendes I ruled from the city of Tanis. In fact this division is less significant than it seems since both priests and pharaohs came from the same family.
The country was firmly reunited by the Twenty-Second Dynasty founded by Shoshenq I in 945 BC (or 943 BC), whom many, especially those ...
