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1.*Adam's descendants would go on to produce three distinct recorded races of people in relation to the Celtic Irish and especially that of their Celtic Gaelic Heritage through his tenth male line descendant,

10.*Noah who had 3 sons listed in the Old Testament, Shem, Ham, & *Japheth who all survived the Great Deluge to have an impact on Celtic Irish history.

11.Shem's recorded descendants the Semites would at first include the Hebrews, who would eventually evolve into the Israelites and later on become known as the Jews of Judah. Among the others would be the Arab Muslims and all would be through his descendant, Abraham. (Moses as an Israelite descendant would also have an individual personal impact of his own on Celtic Ireland.)

11.Ham would become the ancestor of the Fomoiri - Fomorians - African Sea Pirates or Sea Rovers who would be a constant threat to all those of Scythian Celtic descent who where to migrate to Ireland.

*11.Japheth would be the one, who would become the direct ancestor of the Scythian Celts to be more directly involved in Celtic Irish History as the father of,

*12.Magog also mentioned in the Old Testament of the Hebrews with no descendants, unlike his brothers, of which the Celts had no knowledge. He would nevertheless, play the most direct role of all in the Celtic History of Ireland. *12.Magog was to become the direct ancestor of the race of people who would be known as the Scythians who were to have their own individual tribal territory, early on, to the north of the Black Sea in the region above the Mediterranean. This area was a portion of the division originally given over to *11.Japheth by *10.Noah after the Great Deluge when he assigned each of his 3 sons their own particular Family territories. The Scythians initially would directly produce the Feni and the Gaelic Celts - Keltoi.

13.*Baoth the son of *12.Magog became the initial ruler of this specific territory, which was situated on the Steppes above the Black Sea. The Scythians where then to evolve as a separate direct entity through his son, the grandson of *12.Magog, known as;

*14.Feinias "Farsaidh" who became the 1st King of Scythia in his own right who was to be the direct ancestor of those Celtic descendants of the Scythian tribes who were to come into Ireland in the ensuing years ahead. In the order of their arrival these where to be in;

2659 BC - The Scythian Partholonians descended by then from Partholon.

2349 BC - The Scythian Nemedians descended by then from Nemedh.

1933 BC - The Celtic - Teutonic Fir Bolg - Men of the Bag descended still then from Nemedh but infused with Teutonic blood.

1896 BC - The Scythian Celtic Tuatha - Tho De Danann - People of Danu or Sword People descended still from Nemedh.

1699 BC - The Scythian Celtic Gaels descended by then from *15.Niall a son of *14.Feinias "Farsaidh" and his son *16.Gael "Glas."

1698 BC - The Scythian Celtic Cruithin Picts - Caledonians.

330 BC - The Laigin - Lin Celts - Spear People.

100 AD - The Celtic Gaelic Feni - Fenians.

All of these Scythian Celtic tribes where eventually to migrate into Ireland and on settling there claim their male lineal descent from *12.Magog. For the Celts their individual ancestral lineage was very important and especially so to the Irish Celts. (This was to be the method whereby the Tuathas - Family regions - territories were held by their individual Native Irish Families under the Brehon Law. (20 Miles x 20 miles approximately) This was to be totally annihilated by the many centuries of English oppression and to be well and truly finished off by the 17th Century AD. In Ireland the territory belonged to their Septs - Family branches and the King owned nothing and left nothing behind. Under Anglo - Norman rule the King owned everything and everyone was in serfdom to him.

5000 BC - 2230BC the Sumerian Empire was to be the earliest of the newly evolving civilizations to show out with rich River Valley farmland. As their mineral resources and strategic position was not too good they had to innovate using irrigation as their main technology. Their region known as Sumer was situated in southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris River and the Euphrates River join up before flowing into the Persian Gulf. Soon primitive farmers also came down to the valley from the Zagros Mountains to the east and learned how to irrigate their summer fields also. This stability created early settlements at *Ur in 2400 BC along with Uruk & Eridu, all of which grew to become independent cities or states.

*Ur, Lagash, Erech, Eridu & Uruk became their most important cities and down to 3000 BC these prior agricultural regions soon became city - states, along the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers. The Sumerians where to have hundreds of gods with each individual city having its own deity. Also each Sumerian worshipped his own particular minor god or goddess who interacted with the major gods and they had no belief at all in "Life after Death."

Abraham who was a Prince of *Ur, was taken out of Babylonia by his father and eventually came to settle in Hebron in Canaan and he was to have an altogether different outlook to his fellow Sumerians. He was to set in motion a new Religion for that time based on "One God & Life after Death." This personal philosophy and religious conviction would be continued on mainly through his grandson, Jacob who was to be known later as Israel. Israel was to become the leader of the Hebrews who were then later to evolve into the "Israelites" and later still become known as the "Jews" of Judah. Abraham's older son, Ishmael whose mother, Hagar was an Egyptian, was to become the ancestor initially of the "Arab Muslims."

5000 BC - 30 BC the Egyptian Empire was also to evolve initially around the same time as it too was based on good agricultural areas that where close to the River Nile, with irrigation also their main technology. As a major Empire it was to last a lot longer then Sumer as it was situated in a more fortunate location surrounded by a desert with mineral resources. They had one other really important thing in their favour. Their opponents could only assail their region from the west and the north - east along the Mediterranean Sea coast or from the Sea directly, or from the south along the River Valley.

+On to 2659 BC - 2133 BC

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