c. 1000 BC—Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Proto-Dravidian language, a classical language spoken in India.
c. 1000 BC—Assyrians started to conquer neighbouring regions.
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^"Israel's Golden Age". 16 February 2011.
^an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population Archived 2013-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
^The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, 1996, p. 39: "... the other hand, the beginnings of the Iron Age around 1000 BC is held to coincide with the formation of the historical Illyrian peoples. ..."
^https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2020/01/17/king-david-an-archaeological-biography/%7Ctitle = King David, An Archaeological Biography
^https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2020/01/17/king-david-an-archaeological-biography/%7Ctitle = King David, An Archaeological Biography