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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. 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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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The Israelites are defeated by the Philistines on Mount Gilboa, with Saul and three of his sons dying during or after the battle | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Massive stone heads carved by the Olmecs provide a dramatic beginning to the story of American sculpture | |
|  | La Venta, giant head
Photograph Beryl Pethick
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The nomadic fighters of the steppes, nimble on horseback and shooting arrows as they go, pioneer the techniques of cavalry warfare | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Tyre and Sidon have by now replaced Byblos as the dominant cities within Phoenicia | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | The Olmecs raise large clay platforms, probably with temples at the top, beginning the long American tradition of sacred pyramids | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Iron reheated with carbon is found to be much harder, being transformed into steel | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes | |
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| c. 990 BC |
| | | David, already king of Judah and now anointed king of Israel, brings into one realm the twelve tribes of the Israelites | |
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| c. 990 BC |
| | | David captures Jerusalem, which he makes his capital - bringing here the ark of the covenant | |
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