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3400 BCE. Priests become the rulers of Mesopotamian cities . c. 3000 BCE - c. 2900 BCE. Mari, the earliest known planned city, is built near the eastern bank of the Euphrates. 2900 BCE - 2334 BCE. The Early Dynastic Period in Sumer . 2500 BCE. First Dynasty of Lagash under King Eannutum is first empire in Mesopotamia . c. 2400 BCE.
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7000 B.C. A great earthquake destroys the city of Jericho. 6,500 B.C. The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land. 6000 B.C.. First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East. 5,500 B.C. First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region. 4,500 B.C. Humans learn how to use the plow.
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1700 BC – 1400 BC: The Proto-Sinaitic script is the oldest alphabet created in Egypt. 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end but is continued by the Cemetery H culture; The beginning of Poverty Point culture in North America. 1600 BC: Minoan eruption destroys Akrotiri and causes damage to some Minoan sites in eastern Crete.
The 17th century BC was the century that lasted from 1700 BC to 1601 BC. Nebra sky disk , central Europe 1600 BC. The inlaid gold depicted the crescent moon and the Pleiades star cluster in a specific arrangement forming the earliest known depiction of celestial phenomena.
Egypt is a country in North Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to one of the oldest civilizations on earth. The name 'Egypt' comes from the Greek Aegyptos which was the Greek pronunciation of the ancient Egyptian name 'Hwt-Ka-Ptah' ("Mansion of the Spirit of Ptah"), originally the name of the city of Memphis. More about: Ancient Egypt
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c. 1400 BC— Assyrians became very powerful. c. Beginning of Mycenaean era. c. 1400 BC—The center of political and cultural power in the Aegean has shifted from Crete to mainland Greece, which at that time is home to wealthy warrior-kings. c. 1400 BC – 1350 BC – Garden of Nebamum (Pond in a Garden) wall painting from the tomb of Nebamum ...
Some ancient Egyptians have small figures called shabtis placed in their tombs to magically work for them in the afterlife. From about 1500 BC onwards, the number of shabtis in royal tombs increases. By 1000 BC, many wealthy people are buried with hundreds of them. New Kingdom (about 1550–1069 BC) About 1500 BC.
