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| c. 1425 BC |
| | | All the towns and palaces of Crete, except Knossos itself, are destroyed by fire - probably by invaders from Mycenae | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes | |
|  | Tiryns, Greece
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Wine features prominently in the Mycenaean society of this time, as remembered and depicted in Homer | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The clepsydra, or water clock, is developed in Egypt | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The Great City Shang, on a site later known as An-yang, develops as the capital of China's first dynasty | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Ancestor worship, a central theme of Chinese history, is practised by the royal family and high nobility in Shang times | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | All the separate regions of Mesopotamia are by now ruled by aristocracies of warriors fighting from light chariots | |
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