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| c. 2500 BC |
| | Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form | |
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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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| c. 750 BC |
| | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh is known in its complete form from texts in the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | The poems of the Shi Jing, China's earliest work of literature, are gathered together | |
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| c. 550 BC |
| | K'ung-fu-tzu, or Confucius, teaches a practical philosophy which will profoundly influence Chinese history | |
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