The northern kingdom was destroyed by the assyrian empire raised up by God.
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For a while there were the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. In 722/11 BC the Assyrians destroyed the Kingdom of Israel and turned the Kingdom of Judah into a vassal state In 926 and 927 BC the Egyptians overrun the Kingdom of Judah In 720 BC the Assyrians conquered the Kingdom of Israel and destroyed it, bringing it to an end. They also turned the Kingdom of Judah into a vassal state. In 609 BC the Egyptians deposed king Jehoahaz, replaced him with his older brother, Jehoiakim and turned Judah into a vassal state which paid a heavy tribute. In 605 BC he switched his allegiance to Babylon and then rebelled in 601 BC. In 598/97 BC the Babylonians besieged Jerusalem, seized it and took 10,000 years to Babylon as slaves. In 589 BC the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem again and destroyed the city and the First Temple. More Jews were exiled to Babylon and Judah became a province of the Babylonian Empire. In 539 BC the Persians conquered Babylon, allowed the Jews to return home and Judah became the Persian province of Yehud. In 432 BC Alexander the great conquered the Perisan Empire. Judah then became part of the Seleucid Empire which was ruled by the Greek Seleucid dynasty. In 63 BC Judah became a vassal of the Romans. In 6 AD the emperor Augustus annexed it to the Roman Empire
This is the beginning of the New Kingdom
The easy answer would be to say the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom. However, these periods were separated by many intermediate periods.Predynastic Egypt up to c 3100 BCEarly Dynastic c 3100 BC to c 2686 BCOld Kingdom 2686 BC- c 2100BCFirst Intermediate Period c 2181 BC- c 2055BCMiddle Kingdom c 2080 BC- c 1640 BCSecond Intermediate Period c 1640 BC- c1550BCNew Kingdom c 1550 BC- c1069 BCThird Intermediate Period c 1070 BC- 664 BCLate Period 664 BC- 323 BCGreek-Roman Period 323 BC- 395 AD
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Sun Tzu: Author of The Art of War - around 722-481 BC.