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C. 4000–3000 bce
- Fortified settlements have existed in the area from remote antiquity; the earliest date from the Chalcolithic Period (c. 4000–3000 bce). As Rabbah, it became the capital of the Ammonites.
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Together with their neighbors—the Moabites, the Edomites and the Amorites (who also lived west of the Jordan)—the Ammonites loomed large in Israel’s consciousness for many centuries. Even today, the name of the capital of Jordan, Amman, is derived from the Ammonite name.
As with the Edomites and Moabites, trade along this route gave them considerable revenue. Circa 950 BC Ammon showed rising prosperity, due to agriculture and trade, and built a series of fortresses. Its capital was located in what is now the Citadel of Amman. See also. List of rulers of Ammon; Abel-cheramim
- Rabbath Ammon (Amman)¹
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Rabbath Ammon it was called in ancient times, a place-name we might translate as the Ammonite Heights. During the Iron Age, it was the capital of the kingdom of Ammon, rival of the biblical Israelites.
After the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, in 612 b.c., it would seem that the Ammonites moved into territory formerly held by the kingdom of Israel (cf. Jer 49:1-6; Zeph 2:8-11), in particular cities which had once belonged to the tribe of Gad—prob. Mephaath, Heshbon, Beth-peor, Beth-jeshimoth, Kiriathaim, and Medeba, and possibly all ...
AMMON, AMMONITES , ancient people. The Ammonites are one of the many tribes that emerged from the Syrio-Arabian desert during the second millennium b.c.e. and eventually established a national kingdom in Transjordan. In the Bible they are usually called " Benei ʿ Ammon " ("Children of Ammon"), while Akkadian inscriptions have them as Bīt Am ...
Amman is by far the largest city of Jordan. Fortified settlements have existed in the area from remote antiquity; the earliest date from the Chalcolithic Period ( c. 4000–3000 bce ). As Rabbah, it became the capital of the Ammonites.
