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- 1493 Roman alphabet developed. Cadmus was said to have brought fifteen Phoenician letters into Greece. |
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- 1400 - 1300 L B Age 2 A |
- 1375 First solar eclipse recorded in Babylon. |
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- 1300 - 1200 L B Age 2 B |
- 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 & topographic map |
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- 1100 A Chinese dictionary containing 40,000 characters was completed by Pa-out-she. |
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- 1200 Megalithic culture ends because of invasion of Sea People |
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- 1000 Proto-Germanic peoples settle in general area of modern Scandinavia & begin to develop a linguistic/cultural/religious complex separate from that of general Indo-European stock. |
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- 1500 Alter Dedroso Megalith in Portugal
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- 2800 - 1060 740 Helladic Age of Greece |
- 1600 - 1200 Rule of Myceneans, based in city of Mycenae |
- 1600 - 1400 200 Destruction of palace of Cnossus |
- 1500 - 1400 100 Late Helladic Age of Greece 2 |
- 1500's - 1000's 500 Mycenaean |
- 1495 Panathenaean games began. |
- 1493 Roman alphabet developed. Cadmus was said to have brought fifteen Phoenician letters into Greece. |
- 1400 Myceneans conquer Knossos & begin to replace more peaceful Minoan civilization with their own military-centered culture. |
- The rise of Mycenean naval strength. |
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- 1400 - 1060 340 Late Helladic Age of Greece 3 |
- 1373 Troas founded city of Troy. |
- 1425 Linear B in Crete-Minoan maritime hegemony |
- 1375 Construction of domed tombs |
- 1326 Isthmian Games by Sisyphus was established. |
- 1300 Apogee of palaces at Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos & Athens |
- 1326 Institution of Isthmian Games by Sisyphus was established.
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- 1293 Siculi, from Italy, settled Sicily. |
- 1266 Tyndareus, father of Helen, became ruler of Sparta. |
- 1263 Temple of Apollo at Delphi built. |
- 1263 Argonautic Expedition under Jason |
- 1250 Linear B in Greece |
- 1250 Myceneans may have warred with Troy & triumphed (as retold in Homeric epics). |
- 1244 Palamedes invented dice. |
- 1240 Hercules became ruler in Mycenae. |
- 1239 Troy was captured by Argonauts. |
- 1234 Theseus, King in Attica, gathered his people into one city, which he named Athens. |
- 1228 King Theseus of Attica carried off Helen |
- 1220 Priam, father of Paris, became ruler of Troy. |
- 1200 Oracle at Delphi founded |
- Beginning of first iron age. Latini migrate to Italy from Danube region. |
- Trojan War, civil war, & fall of Mycenean. |
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- 1194 Paris, son of Priam, visited Greece & carried away Helen wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Menelaus assembled princes of Greece with their forces, under command of Agamemnon, brother of Menaiaus, |
- 1150 Dorian Immigration into Greece mainland. |
- 1150 - 1050 100 Greeks at Cyprus Sub-mycenaen |
- 1125 Second wave of "Greeks" in Poloponnese |
- 1100 biarchy of Sparta began at death of Aristodemus. His twin sons succeeded him. |
- End of Mycenean age & civilization. Early city states are ruled through monarchy. |
- Dawn of recorded history |
- Myceneans conquered by Dorian invaders |
- Phoenicians colonize Iberia
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- 1160 Turin papyrus, world's earliest known geologic & topographic map |
- 1100 - 800 "Dark Ages," characterized by decline in architecture, writing, & other forms of material culture in Greece. |
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- 1100 Sea Peoples harrying Mediterranean; Dorian invasion |
- 1100 - 800 300 Dark Ages of Greece |
- 1000 Founding of Sparta |
- Latins settle in Latium region. |
- Etruscan tribes move into Italy. |
- 1000's - 195 800's Spartan rule |
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- 1492 - 79 13 Thutmose 2
- 1479 - 25 54 Thutmose 3
- 1473 - 58 15 Hatshepsut
- 1427 - 00 27 Amenhotep 2
- 1400 - 1390 10 Thutmose 4
- 1390 - 52 38 Amenhotep 3
- 1352 Amenhotep 4
- 1352 - 1336 Akhenaten 
- Egyptian 1954
- Nefertiti, regina del Nilo 1961 |
- 1338 - 6 2 Smenkhkare
- 1336 - 27 9 Tutankhamun Commonly believed to be son of Akhenaten, probably reinstated polytheistic religion.
- 1327 - 3 4 KheperkheprureAy
- 1323 - 1295 28 Horemheb |
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- 1398 Seti 1, Ramesses' son, began his 25-year rule of Egypt. Seti I built "Grand Hall of Columns" at Karnak, began Belzoni's tomb, dug canal from Nile to Red Sea & made "Great Table of Abydos." |
- 1375 Akhenaton introduces monotheism in Egypt |
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- 1373 Ramseese II, Great, son of Seti I, began his 61-year rule of Egypt. Ramseese II was most famous of Egyptian kings. He built cities & magnificent temples, Rock Temple of Ipsambul great wall, Raameseum at Thebes & introduced polygamy in Egypt. |
- 1300 Berlin Mathematical Papyrus algebraic equations |
- 1300 Transparent glass invented in Egypt |
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- 1295 - 94 1 Ramesses 1
- 1294 - 79 15 Seti 1
- 1279 - 13 66 Ramesses 2 Great
- 1213 - 03 Merneptah A stele describing his campaigns in Libya & Palestine contains first known reference to Israelites
- 1203 - 00 3 Amenemses
- 1200 - 1194 6 Seti 2 |
- 1280 Ramesses 3, "Egyptian Solomon." "built Temple of Ammon at Meoinet-Abou. last of heroic Kings of Egypt, |
- 1275 Reached a stalemate with Hittites at Battle of Kadesh |
- 1258 earliest known peace treaty was signed |
- 1225 decline of Egypt began. Art almost disappeared & literature was wanting. |
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- 1194 - 88 6 Merneptah Siptah
- 1188 - 6 2 Twosret A rare female ruler |
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- 1186 - 83 Setnakhte
- 1175 Ramesses 3 Fought Sea Peoples
- 1152 - 46 6 Ramesses 4
- 1146 - 2 4 Ramesses 5
- 1142 - 34 8 Ramesses 6
- 1134 - 26 8 Ramesses 7
- 1126 - 4 2 Ramesses 8
- 1124 - 06 18 Ramesses 9
- 1106 - 2 4 Ramesses 10
- 1102 - 1069 33 Ramesses 11 |
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- 1069 - 43 26 Nesbanebdjed 1
- 1043 - 39 4 Amenemnisu
- 1039 - 991 48 Psusennes 1
- 993 - 84 9 Amenemope
- 984 - 78 6 Osorkon Elder
- 978 - 59 19 Siamun
- 959 - 45 14 Psusennes 2
- 1000 Petroleum tar used in mummification |
- Third intermediate Libyan period
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Kingdom of Lydia 1200 - 546 |
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- 1473 Troas founds city of Troy |
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- 1450 - 1300 150 Hittite culture reached its highpoint & dominated territory North & East of Babylon including Turkey & northern Palestine. |
- 1405 - 1390? 15 Tudhaliya 1
- 1390 - 75? 15 Arnuwanda 1
- 1375 - 60? 15 Hattusili 2 (existence disputed)
- 1360 - 44 16 Tudhaliya 2
- 1350 1st recorded smallpox epidemic took place during an Egyptian-Hittite war. Hittite warriors caught disease from Egyptian prisoners. king & heir were fatally infected & empire fell apart. |
- Tudhaliya 3 "the Younger"eldest son of Tudhaliya 2, assassinated upon his father's death, it's not known if he actually ruled or not. He was Suppiluliuma 1's older brother
- 1344 - 22 22 Suppiluliuma 1 expanded empire; mentioned in Amarna letters
- 1322 - 1 1 Arnuwanda 2
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- 1295 - 72 23 Muwatalli 2 Battle of Kadesh, ca. 1274
- 1285 Battle of Kadesh, Hittites fought off invading Egyptians. This reflected power gained from trading metals abundant in Turkey. in fifth year of his reign Ramesses moved to meet & destroy forces of Hittite king, Muwatallis, grandson of Suppililiumas. Here some 70,000-100,000 armed men clashed for two days... & was decisive in that Hittite advanced no further. |
- Signed a treaty with Alaksandu, ruler of Arzawa land known as Wilusa. |
- 1272 - 67 5 Mursili 3 a.k.a. Urhi-Teshub
- 1267 - 37 30 Hattusili 3 Peace treaty with Egypt, a copy of which is at U.N., ca. 1258
- 1237 - 09 28 Tudhaliya 4his cousin Kurunta fl. ca. 1228/7; Battle of Nihriya
- 1209 - 7 2 Arnuwanda 3
- 1207 - 1178 29 Suppiluliuma 2 fall of Hattusa, ca. 1178
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- 1239 Troy was captured by Argonauts. |
- 1220 - 1184 36 Priam |
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- 1192 Ramessu 3 beat back a more formidable attack. inscription describing this war was engraved on second pylon of temple of Medinet Habu. Hittites & North Syrians had been so crippled by them that Ramessu took opportunity to extend frontier of Egyptian territory northward. |
- 1185 The Hittite empire fell to “Sea People,” an invading group coming from west whose precise identity is unknown. |
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- 1220 - 1184 36 Priam |
Trojan war 1194 - 84 10 
- Helen of Troy 2003
- Helen of Troy 1956
- Trojan Horse 1962
- Trojan Women 1972
- Troy 2004
- Odyssey 1977
- Odyssey 1997 TV miniseries
- Ulysses 1954 |
- 1150 - 1100 50 Aeolian Immigrations begin to Asia Minor. |
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- Ten Commandments 1956
- Moses 1996 TV
- Moses Law Giver 1975
- Prince of Egypt 1998 |
- 1574 - 1451 123 Aaron fathered four children & created Levitical priesthood. |
- 1491 marriage of brother & sister was common until prohibited by Law of Moses |
- Moses sees burning bush |
Numbers 1491 - 52 39
- Wandering of Israelites. |
- 1451 Entrance into Canaan. |
- twelve tribes of Israel reached Promised Land. |
- Book of Deuteronomy written in five weeks |
- 1451 - 26 25 Book of Joshua |
- 1426 - 1409 17 Time of Elders years from death of Joshua to first Judge. Once these Elders died nation began to abandon Theocracy. Leadership was weak & for most part people did "every man what is right in his own eyes." |
- 1417 Israelite's first servitude to Mesopotamia |
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- 1409 - 1369 40 Othnel 1st
- 1369 - 51 18 Israel's second servitude by Elgon, king of Moab.
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- 1343 - 38 5 Shamgar 3rd
- 1338 - 1298 40 Deborah & Barak 4th |
- 1356 - 1276 80 years of peace |
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- 1291 - 51 40 Gideon 5th
- 1253 Abimelech sixth judge. one of Gideon's sons, killed his brothers & appointed himself as Judge. His term lasted 3 years. |
- 1251 - 28 23 Tola 6th
- 1228 - 06 22 Jair 7th
- 1228 - 10 18 Philistine & Ammonite oppression of Israel. |
- 1206 - 00 6 Jephthah 8th |
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- 1200 - 1193 7 Ibzan 9th
- 1193 - 83 10 Elon 10th
- 1183 - 43 7th servitude under Philistines lasted 40 yrs
- 1183 - 75 8 Abdon 11th
- 1175 - 55 20 Samson 12th |
- 1155 - 15 40 Eli 13th
- 1115 - 1095 20 Samuel 14th
- Samson & Delilah 1949 1984 TV 1996 TV |
- 1171 - 1056 115 Samuel 1
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- 1155 - 35 20 8th servitude under Philistines |
- 1140 - 30 10 Book of Ruth
- Story of Ruth 1960 |
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- 1047 - 07 Saul, son of Kish, of tribe of Benjamin, 1st King of Israel. Theocracy ended & Jewish Monarchy began.
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- 1048 David defeated Jebusites & Jerusalem became capital of Israel. |
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- 1030 - 970 60 David
- David & Goliath 1960
- King David 1985
- David 1997
- David & Batsheba 1951
- 1023 Absolom revolted, was defeated & died. |
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- 1011 - 931 Solomon 
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- La Regina di Saba (Queen of Sheba) 1952 |
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- 1295 - 64 31 Adad-nirari 1
- 1263 - 34 29 Shalmaneser 1
- 1273 Shalmaneser of Assyria conquers Mitanni |
- 1271 Assyria & Babylon united under Tiglathninip I, son of Shalmaneser I. He was first to assume title, "King of Nations" as king of Sumir & Akkad. |
- 1260 Assyrian scribes first mention Urartu |
- 1240 Assyrians sack Babylon |
- 1233 - 1197 36 Tukulti-Ninurta 1 depossed by son Ashur
- 1220 Babylon & Assyria became separate nations again. |
- Assyria resists incursions by Mushki & Urartu |
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- 1361 - 21 40 Srutanjaya
- 1321 - 1296 25 Vipra |
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- 1238 - 10 28 Kshemya
- 1210 - 1150 60 Subrata |
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- 1145 - 07 38 Susuma
- 1107 - 1059 48 Dridhasena |
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- 1026 - 04 22 Subhala
- 1004 - 964 40 Sunita |
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- 1111 First naked-eye solar flares sighted by Chinese |
- 1100 A Chinese dictionary containing 40,000 characters was completed by Pa-out-she. |
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- 1090 - 69? 21? Dì Yǐ capital at Yīn
- 1069 - 46? 23? Shòu Dì Xīn capital at Yīn
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- 1046 - 3 3 Jī Fā Wǔ Wáng
- 1042 - 21 21 Jī Sòng Chéng Wáng
- 1020 - 996 24 Jī Zhāo Kāng Wáng |
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