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1400 – 1250 BC: the heyday of the Phoenician city of Ugarit. [3] A written alphabet is attested by Ugaritic texts. [4] c. 1380 – 1336 BC: the reign of Šuppiluliuma I, who leads the Hittite Empire to its peak. [5] Šuppiluliuma I conquers the weakened Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni in the second half of the century.
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Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...
Hills are shown by overlapping semicircles, rivers by lines, and cities by circles. The map also is marked to show the cardinal directions. [13] An engraved map from the Kassite period (14th–12th centuries BC) of Babylonian history shows walls and buildings in the holy city of Nippur.
Early regional maps. Ancient Egypt. Turin Papyrus Map (c. 1150 BC) Cartography of Europe. Carta Pisana (13th century) Corbitis Atlas (late 14th century collection of portolan charts) Early Chinese cartography. Da Ming Hunyi Tu (late 14th century Ming dynasty Chinese map) Maps of Russia.
Late 24th century BC: Akkadian Empire is founded, dating depends upon whether the Middle chronology or the Short chronology is used. 2291 BC: Pharaoh Teti is thought to be the earliest known victim of assassination. 2250 BC: Oldest known depiction of the Staff God, the oldest image of a god to be found in the Americas.
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Nov 6, 2015 · The Amarna Letters are a body of 14th-century BCE correspondence exchanged between the rulers of the Ancient Near East and Egypt. They are perhaps the earliest examples of international diplomacy while...
