Thank you for that interesting lesson in history.
I never knew most of that. One thing confused
me though, number 7 in your list. You said that
King David "founded" Jerusalem, but I thought
that he conquered it. Doesn't the book of II
Samuel say that Joab defeated the Jebusites
and took Jerusalem, thereby securing his
position as the leader of David's army?

And I've also been taught that the city's history
goes even farther back, to the time of
Abraham. The book of Genesis teaches that
after Abraham (or Abram) defeated the league
of armies that had plundered Sodom and
kidnapped his nephew Lot, the "Priest-King" of
"Salem," Melchizedek came and offered
sacrifice to God, and Abram gave him a tithe of
the spoils. I've been told that this city of Salem
and Jerusalem are one and the same.