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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Rice is by now grown in the Indus Valley civilization, in the region of Lothal in modern Pakistan, and in parts of China and Korea | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The elephant is tamed in the Indus civilization | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The red jungle fowl is domesticated as poultry in southeast Asia | |
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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 camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia | |
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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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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Tea, now well established as a drink, features in a Chinese dictionary | |
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| c. 50 |
| | | A working week of seven days is adopted in Rome, based on the seven known planets (whose names provide the days) | |
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| | | A great fire in Rome is popularly believed to have been started by Nero, whom legend also accuses of fiddling while the city burns | |
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