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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. 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. 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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