Information about 1550 Bc

A millennium (pl. millennia) is a period of time equal to one thousand years (from Latin mille, thousand, and annum, year).
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3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC The 2nd millennium BCE marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. Its first half is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
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Upper Paleolithic
• 10th millennium BC | 9th millennium BC | 8th millennium BC
• 7th millennium BC | 6th millennium BC | 5th millennium BC

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The seventeenth century BC was the time period from 1700 BC to 1601 BC .

Events

• 1700
• c. 1700 BC — The last species of mammoth became extinct on Wrangel Island.
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The sixteenth century BC was the time period from 1600 BC to 1501 BC .

Events

1700 BC–1500 BC — Hurrian conquests.

• 1600 BC^* — Shang Dynasty of China established.
• 1595 BC — Sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I.

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The fifteenth century BC was the time period from 1500 BC to 1401 BC .

Events

• 1504 BC–1492 BC — Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant.
• 1500 BC–1400 BC — The Rigveda was composed around this time.

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During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC - 1580s BC - 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC
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1584 BC 1583 BC 1582 BC 1581 BC 1580 BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC - 1530s BC - 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC
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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC - 1520s BC - 1510s BC 1500s BC 1490s BC
1529 BC 1528 BC 1527 BC 1526 BC 1525 BC
1524 BC 1523 BC 1522 BC 1521 BC 1520 BC

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Twenty-first century

2100 - 2099 - 2098 - 2097 - 2096 - 2095 - 2094 - 2093 - 2092 - 2091

2090 - 2089 - 2088 - 2087 - 2086 - 2085 - 2084 - 2083 - 2082 - 2081

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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Egypt

Nile region - Fifteenth Dynasty (Hyskos) (1674 BC-1535 BC)

Sinai (Pelusium) - Sixteenth Dynasty (1663 BC-1555 BC)

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State Party  Greece
Type Cultural
Criteria i, ii, iii, iv, vi
Reference 941
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 1999  (23rd Session)
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The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος Pelopónnisos; see also List of Greek place names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth.
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Achaea (Greek: Ἀχαΐα, Achaïa) is an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to
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Mycenaean Greece, the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, is the historical setting of the epics of Homer and much other Ancient Greek literature and myth.
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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC
1559 BC 1558 BC 1557 BC 1556 BC 1555 BC
1554 BC 1553 BC 1552 BC 1551 BC 1550 BC

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