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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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| c. 1490 BC |
| | | Hatshepsut takes power in Egypt, and is unusual in being a female pharaoh | |
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| 1469 BC |
| | | The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III defeats his enemies at Megiddo, in history's first fully described battle and siege | |
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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 |
| | | 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 |
| | | 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 | |
|  | Shang bronze
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| c. 1380 BC |
| | | The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor | |
|  | Luxor, the Great Temple of Amun
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| c. 1353 BC |
| | | The Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV adopts a new deity, Aten, and changes his name to Akhenaten | |
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| c. 1350 BC |
| | | The pharaoh Akhenaten creates a new capital city on the Nile at Tell el Amarna | |
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| c. 1345 BC |
| | | The Amarna letters, an invaluable collection of cuneiform tablets, are written at the court of the pharaoh Akhenaten | |
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| c. 1345 BC |
| | | The Amarna tablets contain extensive correspondence between the Akhenaten government in Egypt and subject princes in Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1340 BC |
| | | One of the regular sitters to the court sculptor Thutmose is the pharaoh's wife, Nefertiti | |
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| c. 1333 BC |
| | | With the return to favour of the god Amen, the young Tutankhaten's name is changed to Tutankhamun | |
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| c. 1324 BC |
| | | The young Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, dies and is buried in a suitable tomb | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Chinese priests record on oracle bones the result of their divination, thus providing the earliest examples of Chinese characters | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenae prevails as the dominant power throughout the Peloponnese and the entire Aegean | |
|  | Mycenae, Lion Gate
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | The earliest known suit of armour, made of bronze, survives from a tomb in Mycenaean Greece | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia | |
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| 1279 BC |
| | | Ramses II, perhaps the greatest of Egypt's pharaohs, begins a reign of sixty-six years | |
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| c. 1275 BC |
| | | An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | | Moses is with the Hebrew tribes in Sinai, after the exodus from Egypt | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | | Not for the first time, the city of Troy is destroyed - on this occasion probably by Mycenaean Greeks | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | | The god of the Hebrews, announcing to Moses 'I Am Who I Am', acquires his name - YHWH, meaning 'He Who Is' | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | | Ramses II creates a spectacular temple in his own honour at Abu Simbel | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | Mysterious raiders from the sea cause chaos throughout the eastern Mediterranean, from Greece to Palestine and Egypt | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | San Lorenzo develops as the first centre of America's earliest civilization, that of the Olmecs | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | The Philistines settle in the region which, as Palestine, will become known by their name | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | Stone tablets, engraved by Moses to signify God's covenant with his people, are placed in a sacred chest - the ark of the covenant | |
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| c. 1150 BC |
| | | Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks | |
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