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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Chinese develop a form of scroll, made of strips of bamboo threaded together and rolled up like a wooden blind | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The composite bow, accurate to 200 yards, is used by warriors in Asia fighting from chariots and on horseback | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The first steps towards a phonetic alphabet are taken in Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Hittites, in Anatolia, are the first people to work iron - introducing what is later called the Iron Age | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Aryans bring into India the roots of Hinduism, with the Brahmans as a priestly caste | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | Sacrificial hymns of the Aryans, gathered in the Rigveda, become the earliest Sanskrit literature | |
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| c. 1490 BC |
| | | Hatshepsut takes power in Egypt, and is unusual in being a female pharaoh | |
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| 1469 BC |
| | | The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III defeats his enemies at Megiddo, in history's first fully described battle and siege | |
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| c. 1450 BC |
| | | Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics | |
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