1550 - 1200 Late Bronze Age |
1493 Roman alphabet developed. Cadmus was said to have brought the fifteen Phoenician letters into Greece. |
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1375 First solar eclipse recorded in Babylon. |
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1244 Palamedes invented dice. |
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1200 - 200 Indian Iron Age |
1200 - 400 AD European Iron Age |
1160 Turin papyrus, world's earliest known geologic and topographic map |
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1100 A Chinese dictionary containing 40,000 characters was completed by Pa-out-she. |
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