| 1500's BC | Iron was first used | ||
| 1500's | Seven day calendar was used | ||
| 1500's | Mayans used rubber | ||
| 1500's | Africa | Sahara is now completely desert lands occupied by the Berbers from the north African coasts | |
| 1500's | Asia | Became Hindu-Kush and formed areas in Medes and Persia | |
| 1500's | Egypt | Kush established south of Egypt | |
| 1500's | Greece | Mycenaeans took control of Minoa | |
| 1500's | India | Indus Valley civilization destroyed (1550) India and Iran were occupied by fair skinned Aryans from Mesopotamia |
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| 1500's | Italy | Massive volcanic explosions and floods | |
| 1500's | Syria | Syria was captured by Egyptians except for the Hittiti cities (1580) | |
| 1570 | Egypt | Dynasty XVIII at Thebes under Amosis then son Ameonphis I. They drove out Hyksos | |
| 1570 | Egypt | Egyptian pharaohs started using Valley of the Kings | |
| 1557 | Egypt | Amenophis I and Thutmosis I fought Palestine, regained Nubia (1504), captured Syria | |
| 1536 | Mesopotamia | Assuruballit of Akkad pillaged and ended Mitanni and built Assyria | |
| 1531 | Mesopotamia | Kassites conquered Babylonia after a Hittiti raid that brought horses. | |
| 1512 | Egypt | Thutmosis II ruled with half sister and wife Queen Hatshepsut | |
| 1502 | Egypt | Thutmosis III married Queen Hatshepsut | |
| 1500 | Mesopotamia | Hurrians invaded Mesopotamia, Syria, eastern Anatolia, Palestine They had unknown language and Aryan names, chariots Hurrians built the Mitanni kingdom |
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| 1400's | Hittities get iron from ore but their territory declined (1430) | ||
| 1400's | Mexico | Aztecs are told by the hummingbird god to build a city where an eagle is eating a snake on a cactus (Mexico City) | |
| 1400's | Syria | Damascus is under Egyptian rule | |
| 1479 | Phoenicians | Conquered by Egypt's Thutmosis III | |
| 1469 | Israel | Battle at Megiddo King Thutmosis III pillaged Mitanni, conquered Nubia, Palestine, Phoenicia and all of Syria, Kadesh |
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| 1450 | Anatolia | Hittitie Dynasty began, threatend by Mitannis and Kashka | |
| 1450 | Greece | Crete Minoan palaces in Knossos were destroyed, replaced with Mycenaean civilization | |
| 1438 | China | Water clocks built in China | |
| 1430 | Mesopotamia | Mitanni territory grew to Anatolia | |
| 1420 | Palestine | Hebrew's exodus from Egypt (one proposed date) | |
| 1411-1358 | Phoenicians | Amorites and Hittities defeated Egyptian princes in Phoenicia | |
| 1300's | China | Introduced books | |
| 1300's | Greece | The Minoa palace in Crete is burned by Greece Aracadians settled along with other tribes |
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| 1380 | Anatolia | Shubbiliuliu, the greatest Hittitii king took Anatolia, subjected Syria, reduced Mitanni | |
| 1300/4 | Mesopotamia Syria |
Migration of Akhlamus (Arameans) | |
| 1300/3 | Phoenicia Syria |
Amorites and Hittities ended all Egyptian rule in Syria, Phoenicia | |
| 1393 | Moses is born according to the Jewish calendar | ||
| 1361 | Egypt | With no heirs, Egypt was controlled by Amenophis IV's two sons in law, Smenkuhare and Tutankhamun who died at age 17, buried in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes | |
| 1350 | Phoenicians | Egypt retook Phoenicia | |
| 1344 | Beginning of Hittie empre | ||
| 1300/1 | Egypt | Moses is born of Hebrew slaves at the end of the 1300's (see 1393) | |
| 1319 | Egypt | Dynasty XIX at Memphis with Ramses I, Sethos, Ramses II, Merneptah Egypt retakes Palestine, Kadesh, Syria |
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| 1308 | Mesopotamia | Adadnirari of Assyria built temples at his capital Assur | |
| 1304 | Egypt | Hebrews are enslaved in Egypt | |
| 1200's | Abraham bought land and a cave from the Ephron the Hittite in which to bury his wife, Sarah | ||
| 1200's | Sacrificial hymns used | ||
| 1200's | First recorded human plague | ||
| 1200's | Earthquakes topple Troy, Jericho, Knossos, Jerusalem (1225-1175 ) | ||
| 1200's | Anatolia | Hittitie kingdom came to an end as Aegean people invade, leaving the
Homeric wars Cimmerians invade, driven from their homeland in Russia by Scythians |
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| 1200's | Crete | Troy is built, nine cities on to of each other, but destroyed in the mid 1200's | |
| 1200's | Cyprus | Settled by the Greeks | |
| 1200's | Greece | Arcadians had settled in Thessaly, Greece then invaded by Ionians, Boeotians & Dorians, went to Mycenae, sacked Troy with the Thessalians. | |
| 1200's | India | Invaded by unknown Aryans of the Iranian Plateau | |
| 1200's | Mexico | Olmec Indians settle on the east coast | |
| 1200's | Palestine | Canaan is divided into three areas: Palestine, occupied by the tribes of Israelites Aram, occupied by the Arameans Phoenicia, occupied by the old Canaanites |
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| 1200's | Phoenicia | Beruit is controlled by Amorites, Ugarit is permanently destroyed | |
| Syria | Aranians migrate into Syria | ||
| 1285 BC | Canaan: The Battle of Kadesh in Syria on the Orontes River north of Canaan | ||
| 1283 | Palestine Syria |
Battle of Kadesh 1294, Ramses II treaty with Hattushilish of the Hittities, south Palestine became part of the Egyptian Empire, divided Syria between themselves | |
| 1200/2 | Mespotamia | Shalmaneser I fought Hurrians and Hittities His son took Kassite Babylon, named the first King of Babylon |
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| 1200/2 | Palestine | Israelites (Israel league) stormed Palestine from Egypt delta and southern deserts | |
| 1270 | Armenia | Shalmaneser mentions Hurrians and Vannic in Armenia (Urartu) | |
| 1237 | Egypt | Ramses II dies, leaving Egypt to his son Merenpath | |
| 1225 | Palestine | Joseph tribes settle at Goshen east of the Nile | |
| 1225 | Moses led his people from slavery in Egypt to Canaan, stopping at the Oasis of Kedesh in Syria, crossing Sanai desert (1225 - 1215?) | ||
| 1221 | Egypt | Attacked by the Aegean "sea people" from Homeric wars at Troy | |
| 1200 | Greece | Dorians with iron weapons overan Crete and Greece, bringing the Iron Age and ending the Mycenaean civilization | |
| 1200 | Palestine | Israelite Judges rule, mostly militaristic to 1020 | |
| Macedonia | Is under Greek influence | ||
| 1100's | Mesopotamia | Babylonia is raided by Elamites 1176 but regained in 1130, then invaded by Aramean tribes | |
| 1100's | Palestine | Moabites and Midianites move into Canaan | |
| Phoenician | Phoenician alphabet developed, contains consonants only | ||
| 1190 | Egypt | Dynasty XX, capital at Thebes under Ramses III, IV - XI Attacked by Danes, Philistines and other Sea People |
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| 1184 | Traditional date of the fall of Troy on April 24th | ||
| 1180 | Palestine | Philistines from the sea build Gaza, Gath, Ashkelton, Ashdod, Ekron | |
| 1156 | Egypt | Ramses IV - XII ruled, were unable to control high priests of Amon | |
| 1125 | Palestine | Israelites victorious over Canaanites at Esdraelon Valley, Song of Deborah | |
| 1116 | Mesopotamia | Tiglath-pileser I of Assyria conquered in Anatolia, Arameans invading Syria, Babylon which basically collapses | |
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