basileus said:
Thwìere's a very serious theory by a Sardinian scholar, Sergio Frau, that his island could be the real homeland of the Tartessos civilization - in that tartessos would have been actually the city of Tharros (ruins some twenty kms west of Oristano). He describes the Strait of Sicily as the ancients' Hercules' Pillars, contrary to the widespread belief they were the Strait of Gibraltar. According to his theory, the ancient Sardinians, when their civilization fell, partrly migrated to continental Italy to constituite the bulk of the Etruscan people, likely with the historically quoted an Egeo-Asian immigration wave as well.
Hm, then Othniel's scenario would go more like this (I've also made a few changes of my own, because I'm like that):
In 612 BC Babylon becomes the capital of Babylonia.
609 B.C. New Tyre is estabilshed. It will quickly dominate Eastern Iberia.
605- 588 Under the rule of king Nebuchadnezzar their territory extented from the edge of Persia to what in the OTL today is called Albania. Many tribes are displaced, especially the Turks and Syrians. The Syrians will flee to Cyprus, where the City of Name? is established in the Eastern part of the islands.
600 BC - 580 Tartessos expands across Corsica and Southern Italy.
538 BC Babylon is sacked by the Medes and Persians. The Medes, as a stronger tribe, become the rulers, and the Persians incorperated into their millitary and are eventually assimilated.
532- 528 BC Egypt gains Independance, and incorperates Canaan.
530-522 Medes unable to hold the Balklands, A greek city league, led by Byzantium, forces the Greeks out of Greek-populated lands, and the Turks force Mede out of the rest of the Balkans. Greek is currently all controlled by Byzantium, but Turkland is independent from Byz.
572- 564 Tartessos gains control of North Italy, and manages to incorperate the Alpine lands and parts of France.
583-491 New Tyre begins unifing the Iberian Peninsula.
How widely is the "Tartessos-On-Sardinia" theory accepted?