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| c. 8000 BC |
| | The tower at Jericho is the world's earliest surviving fortification | |
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| 1469 BC |
| | The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III defeats his enemies at Megiddo, in history's first fully described battle and siege | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | All the separate regions of Mesopotamia are by now ruled by aristocracies of warriors fighting from light chariots | |
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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. 1275 BC |
| | An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | Not for the first time, the city of Troy is destroyed - on this occasion probably by Mycenaean Greeks | |
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| c. 1150 BC |
| | Mycenae and other states of the Peloponnese are overwhelmed by invading Dorian Greeks | |
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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. 1050 BC |
| | Samson is one of many Hebrew chieftains fighting the Philistines for possession of Canaan | |
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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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