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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Phoenician sailors use the pole star for navigational purposes | |
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| c. 1100 BC |
| | | Athens, not reached by the invading Dorians, becomes a surviving outpost of Mycenaean civilization | |
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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. 1050 BC |
| | | The Zhou defeat the Shang, and establish a new dynasty with a capital at Ch'ang-an (now Xi'an) | |
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| c. 1020 BC |
| | | Saul, anointed king of Israel by Samuel, establishes himself at Gibeah, just north of Jerusalem | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Petra acquires importance and wealth from its position on caravan routes from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The Israelites, settled in Canaan, become the first people in history to decide that their god is the only god | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians | |
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