The beginning of the eighth century BC does not reserve any particular narrative stimuli worthy of being transferred to our adventure, in fact, in the first decades unfair and exuberant characters appear, all too normal.
Just so that you may have knowledge and pity, we note some “illustrious” names, without fame and without praise that appeared on this earth.
In Lydia there is a certain type of name Ardis dedicated to bonfires, the King of Urartu was Argishti I and in Egypt it is pharaoh Shoshenq IV and it is not even known how he became one but certainly not by hereditary right, after him he was pharaoh Pimay and also little or nothing is known about him or, perhaps, it is better not to know.
The King of Israel was Jeroboam II and the King of the neighboring kingdom of Judah was Ozia, a man full of initiative and of whom nothing has reached our ears … ironic comment given the name he bore.
Babylon regains independence from the Assyrians whose King, Shalmanassar IV, is unable to keep the kingdom together and in China we record the fall of the Western Zhou dynasty, overthrown by the barbarian invaders who among other things conquer and plunder the capital Hao.
In this sad and boring situation, without great characters and with few illusions about the future, here with a stroke of the kidneys, a people invents you the first Olympics … that is, a series of games to understand who was the best at that moment … we are in 776 BC a date that seemed to be any date and instead will remain fixed in the historical memory of humanity.
This event, which will then take place every four years, takes place in Olympia, Greece and was attended mainly by athletes and personalities from the various popular components of ancient Greece, but also by neighboring peoples.
Tradition has it that during the period of the Olympics all political diatribes and wars in progress were suspended, a sort of truce that, despite the quarrels of the peoples, was incredibly respected.
Meanwhile in Egypt the pharaoh Sheshonq V, son of Pimay reigns, ruled 37 years without leaving a great sign of his presence, indeed, it is remembered because during his reign he allowed a local prince named Osorkon of Sais to become independent and to independently manage a vast area of the western Nile delta; this fact was the premise for the birth of a new dynasty.
Meanwhile, also in Assyria, under the regency of Assur-dan III, whose particularly “absur-de” policies lead to the birth of palace intrigues and conspiracies, there is a slow decline of the King’s power.
Therefore we must record in the first quarter of this century that the historical, traditional kingdoms are in crisis and with them the centrality of Middle Eastern peoples and cultures in favor of the Greek one.
On the other hand, even our stories show how boring and repetitive these peoples have become and how original and lively the newborn Greek world is.
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