1600S BC

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Events and trends

Significant people

Deaths

Events and trends

★ Egypt — End of Fourteenth Dynasty.

★ The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna).

★ The end of the Indus Valley civilization.

★ The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.

★ The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.

★ Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksos — see History of ancient Israel and Judah.

★ 1600 BC — Shang Dynasty instituted in China.

★ 1600 BC — Tumulus culture started.

★ c. 1600 BC — Nebra skydisk created.

★ c. 1600 BC — The foundations of the Olmec civilization in Southern Mexico.

★ c. 1600 BC — Cycladic civilization ends.

★ c. 1600 BC–1550 BC — Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, was made. It is now at National Archeological Museum, Athens.

★ c. 1600 BC–1200 BC — Hittite (Anatolia) iron tools and weapons.

★ c. 1600 BC — Hittites establish capital at Hattushash (near modern Boghazkeui, Turkey).

Significant people

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Deaths

★ 1602 BC — Shem, son of Noah, according to the Hebrew Calendar