Meshola Yisrel's History

Meshola Yisrel's history is divided according to usual Era divisions adopted by Geloan historians to describe the global history.

ANCIENT AGE

1 AC: Yisrelites are taken and released on Gelo, in a pre-fabricated city by the Captors. The city is divided in districts, separated by walls but with big doors. 549 people were taken, being 183 men and 366 women. Crops were already around the city, almost ready to be collected. At this first moment, nobody had exactly an idea of what happened, only that they were taken from their homeland and then released there. By the end of the first year, clashes with Canaanites over assimilation issues resulted in the Israelites gathering and leaving the city, towards west, and then founding the city of Shevte Yeshurun in the middle of the Transition Zone due to its fertile lands. By the beggining of the next year, some Israelites reach the western shore of the continent and estabilish Ayalon, next to a river that was named the same. The First Judge, named Pedahsur ben Yoav from the tribe of Gad, leads the people (see Pedahsur Stele).

14 AC: Israelite population reach 1,000 inhabitants. The village of Bet-Shemes is founded, later to become a city, some kilometers south from Shevte Yeshurun. The place was mostly dedicated to Israelite priests.

19 AC: Population reaches 1,500. The first of the Philistine attacks, made by people from Ekron, leaves 64 Israelites dead. An attempt of counter-attack fails and leads to the deaths of more 32 people. The Danites were temporarily forbidden from going to war because there were only 4 men from the tribe of Dan left after these attacks. Levites are forbidden forever from going to war, except in special cases.

20 AC: Some of the counter-attacks made by the Israelites begin to be effective, and after a Ekronite village is destroyed and its inhabitants killed, the Philistines agree to make a peace deal.

22 AC: Population reaches 2,000. The First Judge dies, and Eliasaf ben Shamai, from the tribe of Dan, becomes the Second Judge. Due to agricultural developments being made in the last two decades, there is a surplus of fruits and crops, leading to a populational boom - this is due to the cicle of rains becoming more stable on the planet for the time being, and this is felt throughout the planet.

28 AC: Population reaches 4,000 inhabitants. The Second Judge decides to unify all three cities in a single "country", with a central governing body. This leads to a better development of its army. A serious attack planned by the Ekronites is averted, and an effective counter-attack is enacted. Philistines ask for a second peace agreement, and the Israelites accept. By the end of the year, the Second Judge dies. His son, Yishmael ben Eliasaf, becomes the Third Judge.

50 AC (100 Earth years): The Israelites have a population reaching 36,000 people. There are now six cities integrating the country: Shevte-Yeshurun, Ayalon, Bet-Shemes, Ma'ale Galilit, Keriot Dan and Ramat Golan (later to be called Ram Golana). A few more villages are estabilished, and on their way to become cities. Great fields for agriculture are estabilished.

59 AC: Population reaches now 140,000. Bet-Shemes becomes the religious centre of the nation, and there the Sages gather to make commentaries on the Torah, the base of what would become the Sefra Tuldot - this is made in order to reestabilish the proper religious life of the nation after the Captivity and to adapt it to its new reality. The populational boom begins to deaccelerate, due to the diminishing crops and fields for animals to feed - they begin storing the surplus of wheat and other grains - the largest storage was built in Ayalon.

65 AC: Israelite population reaches 250,000. A global-wide famine begins, caused by lack of rains all around the globe, and drops in temperature are felt. As a result of the famine, Ekroneans (formerly called Philistines) and Moabites begin to attack the Israelites, but most of these attacks fail. An unknown source, probably an underwater volcano on the other side of the planet, caused a big tsunami, that reached the western continental shore, killed aproximately 3,000 people and destroyed Ayalon completely, leaving the Israelites without their main stored grains.

70 AC: The famine finally ends, leaving an overall death toll of 4,000 people. The population number was maintained at the mark of 250,000 people. The First Temple is being built, after the completion of the first scroll of what will become the Sefra Tuldot: the Sefar Habana (Book of Understanding). The new calendar is estabilished, and being a fixed, calculated calendar, instead of a lunar, sight-based as it was back on Earth (since the moon here isn't the same). More cities are founded, and many more villages. However, the army is left without proper management.

87 AC: The population now marks 900,000 people, and 80 cities are now fully estabilished, with at least 2,000 inhabitants. There are still many villages. The Moabites invented the powder for religious use and, seeing the potential for military use, the Israelites learn how to do it, and develop the first hand explosives, a ball of ceramics filled with compressed powder and small stones to make it ignite when breaking - this was kept a secret from most people, to avoid being copied by the Ekroneans and Moabites. Also, the current Judge decides to improve technologically the Israelite army, by releaving from taxes whoever comes with a good idea or invention to help the army (and also to keep it secret even from other Israelites except the army). The number of soldiers reach 40,000.

88 AC: A new famine happens, but the Israelites are mostly unnafected, since most of its agricultural fields are now near the rivers in the Transition Zone. Several attacks made by the Ekroneans, Moabites and Canaanites occur, but most of them fail to cause any considerable damage to Israelite crops and farms. The Canaanites attempt several attacks on the western shore by arriving in boats, but most of them are unnefective. A few ships are sunk and set in fire by the new bombs used by the Israelites. Several Israelite cities ask for Dagon priests to erect a temple in Ramat Golan, in exchange of supplies.

89 AC: The famine ends. The cult of Dagon rapidly gains adepts among the Israelites, now reaching as much as 40% of Israelite's population. The nation comes to a civil unrest and clashes, and is going to a civil war due to religious conflicts. The last Judge, Meir ben Shalum, from the tribe of Judah, adheres to the cult of Dagon, and the Priests in Bet-Shemes says he's no longer fit to be Israel's leader. The Judge Meir is killed in a clash with Israelite Priests by a woman who entered the fight and threw a stone at his head. These priests warn the people that G-d would bring the exile for what has been happening. The Israelite population now reaches 1.1 million people.

90 AC: After gathering an army of 120,000 soldiers, an alliance formed by the Ekroneans, Moabites and Canaanites attack the cities of Israel. The population stops the internal fightings and try to prevent the invasion. This is the first World War that Gelo would see through its history.

91 AC: After a year of war, the Israelites are all defeated, and the death toll is of 68,500 Israelites killed in battle or destruction of cities. Most of the population is taken captive by the prevailing nations as slaves, but some of the most poor people are left behind to its own fate. In order to prevent the Israelites from ever wishing to recover its national and religious identity and aspire to independence, the Ekroneans burned every Torah scroll they could find, until not a single one was left behind. Other books, such as the Commentaries, were considered of less importance by the Ekroneans and weren't burned, as they never thought the Israelite religion could recover even partially from these books. The city of Bet-Shemes and the First Temple were destroyed in the 9th day of the 11th regular month (Yisrelite calendar). On the same day of the next year, the Moabites use 250 Israelite lactating children as human sacrifices in their capital, Hasrot-Moab, for their god Kemosh, with their mothers and fathers are forced to watch tied to the altar where they were burnt - many parents in despair managed to break free from the ropes and threw themselves to the fire and died, with the Sefra Tuldot explaining that they were attempting to rescue their children.

98 AC: By the end of the year, an asteroid roughly 1km wide fell nearly 600km from the western continental shore. On western side of the continent, the waves reached 50m high and reached inland as far as 68km, leading to more unaccounted Israelite casualties. The wave went around the world and hit the coastal Ekronas's city of Ashdod as 20m high with full force, killing all its inhabitants - the majority of Israelites who followed the cult of Dagon lived in the city. Also the Ekronas's city of Bet Dagan is hit with full force, even though it is 38km inland, and many more Israelites were killed.

99 AC (198 Earth years): By the beginning of the year, a Moabite-Ekronean war broke out, leading to even more Israelite casualties, as both sides were using them as slaves for building walls and as distraction. By the end of the same year the Moabites lose the war, and their capital city is fully burned down with its entire population trapped inside, and the king and all his sons are burned in the altar of Kemosh. During the war, an underground Israelite militia with guerrilla tactics began acting, by attacking both the Ekroneans and the Moabites, sometimes these attacks were very effective - this was meant to weaken their armies and help a possible future uprising of the Israelites and their return to their land. The Israelite population now is down to 584,000 people, nearly half of its maximum.

WAR AGE

108 AC: (still creating. please be patient)