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| c. 8000 BC |
| | The tower at Jericho is the world's earliest surviving fortification | |
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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. 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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| 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. 1150 BC |
| | Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks | |
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| c. 1050 BC |
| | Samson is one of many Hebrew chieftains fighting the Philistines for possession of Canaan | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | The Israelites are defeated by the Philistines on Mount Gilboa, with Saul and three of his sons dying during or after the battle | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | The nomadic fighters of the steppes, nimble on horseback and shooting arrows as they go, pioneer the techniques of cavalry warfare | |
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| -853 BC |
| | Gindibu brings 1000 Arab warriors on camels to do battle at Karkar (the first known reference to Arabs as a distinct group) | |
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