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| c. 1500 |
| | | The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders | |
|  | Nigerian Bronze Head, 16th century
British Museum
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The lively realism of Kamal-ud-din Bihzad lays the basis of both the Persian and the Mughal schools of painting | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | Even the remote city of Machu Picchu, on its peak above the jungle, is built in the massively precise Inca style of masonry | |
|  | Machu Picchu
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The first etchings are printed in Augsburg, from iron plates | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | Nanak, the first of the Sikh gurus, takes to the road as a wandering teacher | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The first watches, made in Nuremberg, are spherical clocks about three inches in diameter, worn usually on a ribbon round the neck | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The first modern lock gates are installed on a canal in Milan, probably designed by Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | Faenza becomes the main centre for the production of the Italian tin-glazed earthenware known as majolica | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | Leonardo argues that fossils in rocks far above the sea imply not the effects of the Flood but a change in the level of an ancient sea bed | |
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| c. 1500 |
| | | The female mamakuna and the male yanakuna are selected in childhood to serve the Inca state | |
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