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| c. 1500 BC |
| | Indo-European tribes, speaking Baltic languages, settle in the regions of modern Lithuania and Latvia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The gods Amen and Re are merged at Thebes as Amen-Re, the most important deity in the Egyptian pantheon | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | Texts written at Mycenae, in the script known as Linear B, are the earliest surviving version of Greek | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The Chinese develop a form of scroll, made of strips of bamboo threaded together and rolled up like a wooden blind | |
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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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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The first steps towards a phonetic alphabet are taken in Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | The Hittites, in Anatolia, are the first people to work iron - introducing what is later called the Iron Age | |
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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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