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docyabut
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Rate Member   posted 04-24-2006 08:57 PM                       
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600 B.C.

Gaelic Celts, called the Gaels (Gauls), settled in Hibernia (Ierne or Ireland) integrating with the aboriginal peoples. The Anatolia (Greek) religion of 'city state' (Polis) a form of Imperialism appears in Massilia (Marseillies, France) about this time. This religion demanded utmost loyalty to law for social order and political ideals.

Massilia (Marseille France) is established by Anatolia (Greek) and Semitic-Phoenician colonists about this time. The Semitic-Phoenician discouraged the Anatolia (Greek) from settling in southern Spain and in Corsica. In Italy the Latin-Etruscans became hostile confining the Anatolia (Greek) to the south. Egypt reports that Anatolia (Greeks) and Semitic-Hebrews have established colonies in Egypt.

Babylon established a silver standard resulting in usury, mortgages and enslaved debtors. Private business flourished and families like the Egibi made a fortune in real estate, the slave trade and money lending.

The Latin-Etruscan Empire extended from Tuscany to cover most of Italy from the Po Valley in the North to Salerno in the South. Some believed they originated in Turkey as part of the Hittite Empire while others suggest they originated in Italy as a culture.

The Egyptian Pharaoh Necho commissioned Semitic-Phoenician mariners to voyage round Africa. Three years later they returned to report that the continent is surrounded by sea except at the point in Egypt where it joins Asia.

The Egyptians in 600 B.C. recorded the existence of Atlantis. This alleged myth was passed down through Solon to Plato who recorded it in 400 B.C. An epochal flood is believed to have swallowed up Atlantis.


According to Herodotus, King Arganthonios ruled Tartessia for 80 years, from 630 BC to 550 BC. Much of this Tartessian dynasty is told in legends, so no one knows what part is actually historical. He is said by the Greeks to have lived for 120 years while others state that he lived a longer 150 years. His empire consisted of all of Andalucía and extended to the Cabo de la Nao (a cape east of the Costa Blanca, south of the Gulf of Valencia). His empire was what may possibly have attracted Greek colonists to the Spanish coast. One of those colonies was Mainake, present-day Málaga. Though the capital of Tartessia sank in the mouth of the swampy Guadalquivir River (and now is famously thought to have been Atlantis), its sunken ruins show great fortifications and columns. Herodotus records his death after a naval battle won by the Greeks over a united fleet of Carthaginians and Etruscans. After losing over half their fleet, the Greeks stopped challenging military dominance in the area, and Tartessia, without an ally, became exposed to Carthaginian expansion.