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Humans, perhaps in ancient Mycenaean Greece, invent the lathe (~1400 B.C. ???)
A flat wooden dish which stood on wooden legs and features many characteristics of lathes was found in a pit grave at Mycenae dated at 1100 to 1400 BC.
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Humans in ancient Iraq invent musical notation (~1400 B.C.)
The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Sumer (today’s Iraq), in about 1400 BC.
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Oldest known song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6”, composed in Ancient Sumeria (~1,400 B.C.)
For the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient…
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Babylonian astronomers create the world’s first star catalogues (~1500 B.C. ???)
The earliest known star catalogues were compiled by the ancient Babylonian astronomers of Mesopotamia in the late 2nd millennium BC, during the Kassite Period (ca. 1531–1155 BC).
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Nok culture flourishes in modern-day Nigeria (~1500 B.C.)
The Nok culture is an early Iron Age population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their famous terracotta sculptures were first discovered by Westerners in 1928.
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Hittites in modern-day Turkey develop iron smelting process, launching the Iron Age (~1,500 B.C.)
The Iron Age began when iron replaced bronze as the most popular metal used for weapons.
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The Shang Dynasty comes to power in China (1,556 B.C.)
The Shang dynasty is the earliest dynasty of traditional Chinese history supported by archaeological evidence.
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Hammurabi establishes his code of conduct, one of the first known examples of law and order (~1,750 B.C.)
The code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” as graded depending on social status, of slave versus…
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Zoroastrianism -perhaps the world’s first monotheistic religion – emerges in modern-day Iran (~2,000 B.C. ???)
Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century A.D.
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Humans from the Adronovo culture of the central Eurasian steppe invent the chariot (~2,000 B.C. ???)
The earliest fully developed spoke-wheeled horse chariots are from the chariot burials of the Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the Sintashta-Petrovka Proto-Indo-Iranian culture in modern Russia and Kazakhstan from around 2000 BC.
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Austronesian peoples migrate to modern-day Indonesia from Taiwan (~2,000 B.C. ???)
Austronesian people form the majority of the modern population. They may have arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE and are thought to have originated in Taiwan.
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The Xia Dynasty becomes first government and first dynasty in China (~2,070 B.C.)
The Xia Dynasty (c. 2070-1600 BCE) was the first government to emerge in ancient China and became the first to adhere to the policy of dynastic succession.
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The Poverty Point culture in modern-day southern United States flourishes (~2,200 B.C.)
Poverty Point culture is an archaeological culture that corresponds to an ancient group of indigenous peoples who inhabited the area of the lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 2200 BC -…
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Sargon the Great forms the world’s first empire in Mesopotamia, the Akkadian Empire (~2,350 B.C.)
The Akkadian Empire eventually also stretched across modern day Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon.
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Ancient Egyptians begin using papyrus as a writing surface (~2,500 B.C.)
Papyrus is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta. Apart from…
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The Ancient Egyptians invent boat docks (~2,500 B.C. ???)
The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor dating from 2500 BCE located on the Red Sea coast.
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Ancient Andeans build first city in the Americas, Caral, in modern-day Peru (~2,500 B.C. ???)
Caral was a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca Province, Peru. Caral is the most ancient city of the Americas and a well-studied site of the Norte Chico civilization.
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Kerma culture flourishes in modern-day Sudan (~2,500 B.C.)
The Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE in ancient Nubia, located in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan.
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Use of the now ubiquitous spice black pepper becomes widespread, beginning in modern-day India (~2,500 B.C. ???)
Black pepper is native to Kerala in Southwestern India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions.
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Kubaba of Sumeria becomes humanity’s first female ruler (~2,500 B.C.)
Tons of monarchs make an appearance on the Sumerian King List, but there’s only one lady named: Kubaba, or Kug-Bau.
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