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| c. 2200 BC |
| | | A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire | |
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| 2000 BC |
| | | The god Ashur is worshipped at a shrine on the Tigris known by his name (the origin of the word Assyria) | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs | |
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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. 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 god Osiris, in his tall white headdress, represents in Egyptian tombs the idea of resurrection in the next world | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Jews adopt a long-established Egyptian ritual - the circumcision of boys | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The gods Amen and Re are merged at Thebes as Amen-Re, the most important deity in the Egyptian pantheon | |
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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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