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Millennia:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC
Decades:	1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
Years:	1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC 1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC
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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 — "Mask of Agamemnon" Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made. Grave Circle A. It is now at National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
c. 1600 BC–1200 BC — Hittite (Anatolia) iron tools and weapons.
c. 1600 BC - 1200 BC - Tiryns, Ancient Greece, is inhabited.
c. 1600 BC — Hittites establish capital at Hattushash (near modern Boghazkeui, Turkey).

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Deaths

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

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 eighteenth century BC was the time period from 1800 BC to 1701 BC .

Events

1800 BC - beginning of Iron Age in India^[1]
1800 BC — beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the periodization system devised by Oscar Montelius.

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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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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1660s BC 1650s BC 1640s BC - 1630s BC - 1620s BC 1610s BC 1600s BC
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16th century BC - 15th century BC

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16th century BC - 15th century BC

1600s BC 1590s BC 1580s BC - 1570s BC - 1560s BC 1550s BC 1540s BC
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1574 BC 1573 BC 1572 BC 1571 BC 1570 BC

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1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
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1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
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1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 BC

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17th century BC - 16th century BC

1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC
1609 BC 1608 BC 1607 BC 1606 BC 1605 BC
1604 BC 1603 BC 1602 BC 1601 BC 1600 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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Gumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah

Arab Republic of Egypt

Flag Coat of arms
Anthem
Bilady, Bilady, Bilady
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Dynasties of Pharaohs
in Ancient Egypt
Predynastic Egypt
Protodynastic Period
Early Dynastic Period
1st 2nd
Old Kingdom
3rd 4th 5th 6th
First Intermediate Period
7th 8th 9th 10th
11th (Thebes only)

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Ancient Mesopotamia

Euphrates Tigris
Cities / Empires
Sumer: Uruk ' Ur ' Eridu
Kish ' Lagash ' Nippur
Akkadian Empire: Akkad
Babylon ' Isin ' Susa
Assyria: Assur Nineveh
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Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal

A relief depicting lion hunt.
Reign 669 – ca. 631 BC
Predecessor Esarhaddon
Successor Ashur-etil-ilani Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal or Sardanapal, in Akkadian
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VENUS is an acronym for the Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea . The VENUS project is operated out of the University of Victoria and is an advanced cabled sea floor observatory, consisting of fibre optic cables connecting oceanographic instruments on the sea floor of the
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