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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | The principle of the bow and arrow is developed, with yew or elm for the bow and points of flint on the arrows | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | The tower at Jericho is the world's earliest surviving fortification | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes | |
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| c. 1800 BC |
| | | In Mesopotamia the new weapon is a light chariot, drawn by two horses | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | Hammurabi destroys Mari (concealing for posterity an extraordinary cuneiform archive not discovered until 1933) | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The composite bow, accurate to 200 yards, is used by warriors in Asia fighting from chariots and on horseback | |
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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. 1400 BC |
| | | All the separate regions of Mesopotamia are by now ruled by aristocracies of warriors fighting from light chariots | |
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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. 1275 BC |
| | | An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires | |
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