3000-1200 BCE - Bronze Age More advanced Canaanite settlements emerge in the Jordan Valley, notably in Hazor, Bet Shean and Shechem in the north and Gezer, Jerusalem and Hebron in the central highlands. Each town is protected by a Baal, or resident god. Egyptian accounts from the 13th century BCE, meanwhile, speak of the existence of a nomadic population called the Hapiru in the area. 8000-4000 BCE 3000-1200 BCE 1700 1200-600 BCE 587-332 BCE 520 BCE 332-63 BCE 166 BCE 63-324 CE 6-3 BCE 66 CE 68 CE 132-135 CE 135-324 CE 324-638 CE 614 CE 638-1099 CE 1099-1291 CE 1291-1917 CE 1492 1517 1886 1918-1948 1948 1950-67 1968-1988 1974 1977 1982 1993 2000