The Exodus tradition
c. 1,250 BCENotable
The Hebrew Bible tells of Moses leading Israel out of slavery in Egypt to receive the law at Sinai. Historians debate its basis, but the story becomes Judaism's founding memory, retold each Passover.
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Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Ziggurat of Ur → Abraham and the patriarchs (tradition) → The Exodus tradition
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