New lands had recently become available when who would become the richest man in the world came to power, King Solomon, because the Ice Age had ended just a few centuries previously, so the evidence of Hebrew writing in the eastern U. S. indicates his miners came there, and in southern Spain the Minas de Salomon. To the east of Israel his power extended to Takht-e Soleyman (Throne of Solomon) about two hundred fifty miles west of Tehran, and further east to Saimaluu Tash of far eastern Uzbekistan, on a plateau in the Tien Shan mountains which had been perennially covered in snow until circa 1400 b. c.
