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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | Ashur, or Assyria, sinks into almost a millennium of fluctuating but largely diminished fortunes | |
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| c. 1630 BC |
| | | The Hyksos, arriving from the middle east, win control of Egypt and rule for a century | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | The characters written in Chinese documents of the Shang dynasty are directly related to those still in use today | |
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| c. 1550 BC |
| | | Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls | |
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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The New Kingdom begins in Egypt, bringing the most spectacular of all the dynasties | |
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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The god Osiris, in his tall white headdress, represents in Egyptian tombs the idea of resurrection in the next world | |
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| c. 1531 BC |
| | | Babylon is destroyed by the Hittites, invaders from Anatolia, but reestablishes itself in subsequent centuries | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 1520 BC |
| | | Thutmose I extends Egyptian control as far up the Nile as Abu Hamad | |
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