25 surprising historical facts from before the Common Era

Oh boy, @NarratePal. This is purely selective history designed to mislead for modern political purposes. Yikes.Yes, the geographic term "Palestine" (from Egyptian "Peleset" ~1177 BCE for the Aegean Sea Peoples/Philistines on the coastal Gaza Strip, later Assyrian "Palashtu" and Herodotus' "Palaistinē") is ancient. But the Philistines were non-Semitic-speaking, Greek-origin invaders — biblical enemies of the Israelites — who disappeared as a distinct people centuries before the Common Era.There w