Suggested dates range Arranging from 5561 to around 950 BCE , while popular tradition holds Defending that the war marks Recording the transition to Kaliyuga and thus dates it to 3102 BCE .

Suggested dates range Arranging from 5561 to around 950 BCE , while popular tradition holds Defending that the war marks Recording the transition to Kaliyuga and thus dates it to 3102 BCE .

The oldest Tarim mummies , found Know in the Tarim Basin , are dated to the 2nd millennium BCE , when the Indo-European Tocharians inhabited the Tarim Basin .

In the first millennium BCE the Tarim Basin was inhabited by the Indo-European Yuezhi nomads .

In the second century BCE the region became Becoming part of the Xiongnu empire , a confederation of nomads centered Placing on present-day Mongolia .

The Tarim Basin was first referred to as `` Xiyu '' ( ) under the Han dynasty , which drove Motion the Xiongnu out of the Tarim Basin in 60 BCE ( Han–Xiongnu War ) in an effort to build Building and secure the profitable Silk Road , maintaining a variable military presence until the early 3rd century .

Sennacherib was the king of Assyria from 705 BCE to 681 BCE .

Sennacherib was the king of Assyria from 705 BCE to 681 BCE .

He was assassinated Killing in obscure circumstances in 681 BCE , apparently by his eldest son ( his designated successor , Esarhaddon , was the youngest ) .

The primary preoccupation of his reign was the so-called `` Babylonian problem '' , the refusal Agree_or_refuse_to_act of the people of Babylonia to continue to accept Assyrian rule , culminating Process_end in his destruction Destroying of the city in 689 BCE .