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[edit] Overview
[edit] Events
Entrance to the Palace of
Ugarit, an ancient cosmopolitan port city
- 1504 BC — 1492 BC — Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.
- 1500 BC — 1400 BC — The Rigveda was composed around this time.
- 1500 BC — 1400 BC — The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.
- 1490s BC — Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- 1487 BC — Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus.
- c. 1469 BC — In the Battle of Megiddo, Egypt defeats Canaan.
- 1460s BC — The Kassites overrun Babylonia and found a dynasty there which lasts for 576 years and nine months.
- 1446 BC—According to some chronologies, Moses leads the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
- 1437 BC — Legendary King Erichthonius I of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years and is succeeded by his son Pandion I.
- Approximately 1420 BC — Crete conquered by Mycenae — start of the Mycenaean period.
- 1400 BC — Palace of Minos destroyed by fire.
- 1400s BC — Several board games, including Alquerque, carved into the roof of the temple at Kurna, Egypt — see History of board games.
- 1400s BC — Linear A reaches its peak of popularity.
- 1400s BC — The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit.
- Myceneans conquers Greece and border of Anatolia.
- The Tumulus culture flourishes.
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[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions