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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze | |
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| c. 1850 BC |
| | | Wrestlers are painted on the walls of an Egyptian tomb, performing most of the holds and falls still in use today | |
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| c. 1800 BC |
| | | Abraham leaves Ur and moves with his tribe and flocks towards Canaan | |
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| c. 1800 BC |
| | | In Mesopotamia the new weapon is a light chariot, drawn by two horses | |
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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | A mathematical papyrus, copied out by Ahmes, an Egyptian scribe, offers some of the world's first exam questions | |
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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | Babylonian astronomers name many of the constellations and identify the planets | |
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| c. from 1750 BC |
| | | Over many centuries Indo-European tribes (Greeks, Germans, Balts, Italics, Celts) move into new territories throughout western Europe | |
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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | Priests in Babylon make loans from the temple treasure, introducing the concept of banking | |
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| c. 1750 BC |
| | | The Babylonians introduce an important step in the story of arithmetic - the concept of place value in numbers | |
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| c. 1720 BC |
| | | The Code of Hammurabi gives a detailed picture of Babylonian law and society | |
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| c. 1720 BC |
| | | The Code of Hammurabi is the first surviving document to record the law relating to slaves | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | The biblical account suggests that around this period the Hebrews are a captive tribe in Egypt | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | The Hittites build an empire based on their stronghold at Hattusa (now Bogazkale) in Anatolia | |
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| c. 1630 BC |
| | | The Hyksos, arriving from the middle east, win control of Egypt and rule for a century | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | The characters written in Chinese documents of the Shang dynasty are directly related to those still in use today | |
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| c. 1550 BC |
| | | Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls | |
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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The New Kingdom begins in Egypt, bringing the most spectacular of all the dynasties | |
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| c. 1540 BC |
| | | The god Osiris, in his tall white headdress, represents in Egyptian tombs the idea of resurrection in the next world | |
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| c. 1531 BC |
| | | Babylon is destroyed by the Hittites, invaders from Anatolia, but reestablishes itself in subsequent centuries | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 1520 BC |
| | | Thutmose I extends Egyptian control as far up the Nile as Abu Hamad | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Maya are believed to have lived in the same region from about 1500 BC to the present day - America's longest example of continuity | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | A copper trumpet is in use in Egypt, forerunner of the brass instruments of the orchestra | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Jews adopt a long-established Egyptian ritual - the circumcision of boys | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Slavs settle in the regions of eastern Europe and western Russia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | Indo-European tribes, known collectively as Aryans, enter India from the northwest | |
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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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