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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | Priests in Babylon make loans from the temple treasure, introducing the concept of banking | |
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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | The Babylonians introduce an important step in the story of arithmetic - the concept of place value in numbers | |
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| c. 1720 BC |
| | | The Code of Hammurabi gives a detailed picture of Babylonian law and society | |
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| c. 1720 BC |
| | | The Code of Hammurabi is the first surviving document to record the law relating to slaves | |
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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. 1000 BC |
| | | The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians | |
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| c. 870 BC |
| | | Ashurnasirpal II creates a spectacular new capital at Nimrud (and claims to have had 69,574 guests at his palace-warming party) | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The technique of glazing pottery is discovered in Mesopotamia, though used at this stage only for decorative purposes | |
|  | Glazed Babylonian tiles
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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The Assyrian army makes good use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons | |
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