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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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| c. 1324 BC |
| | | The young Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, dies and is buried in a suitable tomb | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Chinese priests record on oracle bones the result of their divination, thus providing the earliest examples of Chinese characters | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenae prevails as the dominant power throughout the Peloponnese and the entire Aegean | |
|  | Mycenae, Lion Gate
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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. 1300 BC |
| | | Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenaean merchants trade as far west as Spain and have links with neolithic societies far away in the interior of Europe | |
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| 1279 BC |
| | | Ramses II, perhaps the greatest of Egypt's pharaohs, begins a reign of sixty-six years | |
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