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c. 2500 BC
 
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Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form      
c. 1500 BC
 
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Sacrificial hymns of the Aryans, gathered in the Rigveda, become the earliest Sanskrit literature        
c. 750 BC
 
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The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia       
c. 650 BC
 
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The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh is known in its complete form from texts in the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh        
c. 600 BC
 
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The poems of the Shi Jing, China's earliest work of literature, are gathered together     
c. 550 BC
 
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K'ung-fu-tzu, or Confucius, teaches a practical philosophy which will profoundly influence Chinese history