Human History Dates Only - 2000 BCE - 1000 BCE Flashcards
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Math is a prerequisite for understanding and predicting the movement of the planets. Planetary movement was an essential component of Mesopotamian religion. As part of their mathematical development, the Mesopotamians developed the base-60 numbering system, which is still used in navigation and to tell time.
Well preserved tablets, mostly from 1800 to 1600 BCE, cover topics that include fractions, algebra, quadratic and cubic equations and the Pythagorean theorem. The Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 gives an approximation of Pi accurate to three significant sexagesimal digits (seven significant decimal digits).
1800 to 1600 BCE
HAMMURABI
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1792-1750 BCE
A powerful Babylonian emperor.
Hammurabi’s law code is among the earliest recorded legal systems, and it could be quite harsh. The famous “eye for an eye” required the loss of an eye if one caused someone else to lose an eye, even accidentally.
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THE HITTITE EMPIRE
Began in Hattusa in central Anatolia
1600 BCE
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SHANG DYNASTY
1600 BCE - 1046 BCE
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XIA DYNASTY
Ends
1600 BCE
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ANCIENT ANATOLIAN EMPIRES
Before Alexander
Hittites 1600 BCE - 1178 BCE
Lydians 1178 BCE - 546 BCE
Achaemenids 546 BCE - 330 BCE
Macedonians 330 BCE (Alexander the Great)
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The PHOENICIANS
Started in the Eastern Mediterranean in the west of the Fertile Crescent
Conquered by Persian King Cyrus the Great
1500 BCE
539 BCE
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HITTITE EMPIRE
Date of Furthest Extent (Spread to cover Anatolia and into upper Mesopotamia.)
1350 BCE
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AKHENATEN
Date of death
(13 yrs before Tutankhamen)
1336 BCE
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TUTANKHAMUN
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Age crowned
d. 1323 BCE (19)
Ruled from age 6 when his father died.
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MIDDLE ASSYRIAN
1300s BCE - 934 BCE
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RAMESES THE GREAT
1279 BCE to 1213 BCE
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OZYMANDIAS
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1279 - 1213 BCE
(was a Greek name for pharaoh Ramesses II)
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THE HITTITE EMPIRE
Date and name of Famous Battle
1274 BCE: The Battle of Kadesh, against the Egyptians under Ramses II.
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BATTLE OF KADESH
Egyptians vs the Hittites
1274 BCE
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THE OLMECS
1200 BCE to 400 BCE
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IRON AGE
Beginning in Caucuses, Anatolia, Italy
1200 BCE
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LYDIA
start
end
1178 BCE: (after the decline of the Hittite Empire)
546 BCE (Conquered by the Persian king Cyrus the Great)
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THE HITTITE EMPIRE
Conquered by the Assyrians
1178 BCE
