16th century BC

16th century BC - Overview. 16th century BC - Events. 1700 – 1500 BC -- Hurrian conquests. 1600 BC* — Shang Dynasty of China established. 1595 BC - Sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I. 1567 BC - Egypt: End of Fifteenth Dynasty, end of Sixteenth Dynasty, end of Seventeenth Dynasty, start of Eighteenth Dynasty. 1550s BC - The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, comes to dominate the rest of Achaea, g ...

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Anhui (Chinese: 安徽; Hanyu Pinyin: Ānhuī; Wade-Giles: An-hui; Postal System Pinyin: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in east China, across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. It borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, a ...

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Moses or Moshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Moše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšẹh, Syriac ܡܘܫܐ Muše, Arabic موسى Mūsa, Ethiopic ሙሴ Musse, Latin Moyses), son of Amram (Imran in Arabic) and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite, was a Legendary Hebrew liberato ...

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Conversion syndrome describes a condition in which physical symptoms arise for which there is no clear explanation. The term stems from the 19th century European conception of hysteria, which itself can be traced back to Egyptian papyri from the 16th century BC. Psychiatrists now separate out conversion disorder, in which the complaints are neurologic, from similar conditions in which the complaints can be about such things as pain. Patients with conversion and hysteria led Sigmund Freud to his theories on the unconscious and t ...

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Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC Decades: 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC - 1540s BC - 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC 1490s BC 1540s BC - Events and trends. History of ancient Israel and Judah - earliest date for Ahmose I founding the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt 1540s BC - Significant people. 1546 BC - Ahmose I, Pharaoh and founder of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, died.

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Centuries: 16th century BC - 15th century BC - 14th century BC Decades: 1450s BC 1440s BC 1430s BC 1420s BC 1410s BC - 1400s BC - 1390s BC 1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC 1400s BC - Events and trends. 1400 BC - Palace of Minos destroyed by fire. Several board games, including Alquerque, carved into the roof of the temple at Kurna, Egypt - see History of board games. Linear A reaches its peak of popularity. The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit. ...

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For at least ten thousand years, the Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations in the world. Even today, its architectural monuments, which include Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, are among the largest and most famous buildings in the world. Ancient Egyptian architecture - Characteristics. Due to the scarcity of wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were unbaked mud brick and stone. From the Old Kingdom onward, stone was generally reserved for tombs ...

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Chariot was the name of a WW2 naval weapon, the British manned torpedo. A chariot is a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle. In Latin biga is a two-horse chariot, and quadriga is a four-horse chariot. It was used for battle during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and continued to be used for travel, processions and in games after it had been superseded militarily. Early forms may also have had four wheels, although these are not usually referred to as chariots. The critical invention that allowed the constructi ...

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Henan (Chinese: 河南; Hanyu Pinyin: Hénán; Wade-Giles: Ho-nan), is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is 豫 (pinyin: yù), named after Yuzhou Province (豫州 Yù Zhōu), a Han Dynasty province (zhou) that included parts of Henan. The name Henan means "south of the (Yellow) River" (Huang He). With nearly 100 million people, Henan ...

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Jiangxi (Chinese: 江西; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiāngxī; Wade-Giles: Chiang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south. "Jiangxi" means "west of the Yangtze". The name originated, however, as a contraction of "Jiangnanxi" (江南西), which literally means "the west of the south of the Yangtze". The name was coined by the Tang Dynasty when it split "Jiangnan" ("south of the Yang ...

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Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhèjiāng; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang (crooked river) was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital. The name ...

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Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC Decades: 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC 1500s BC - Events and trends. Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England. The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade. Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey. Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize. The Phoenic ...

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El-Karnak is a small village in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile some 2.5 km north of Luxor. It stands at 25°43′N 32°39′E. Visitors to the area – particularly foreign tourists – perceive no distinction between Luxor and el-Karnak, as the two are both parts of the same conurbation. Karnak - Karnak Temple. Karnak Temple is the leading attraction in el-Karnak. Essentially this is el-Karnak. The very term Karnak is nearly universally understood a ...

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Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC Decades: 1600s BC 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC - 1550s BC - 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC 1500s BC 1550s BC - Events and trends. The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, comes to dominate the rest of Achaea, giving its name to Mycenaean civilization. 1556 BC - Cecrops builds or rebuilds Athens following the great flood of Deucalion and the end of the Golden age. He becomes the ...

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Book of the Dead is the common name for ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of some texts in 1842. "Books" were nothing like a modern book – the text was initially carved on the exterior of the deceased person's sarcophagus, but was later written on papyrus now known as scrolls and buried inside the sarcophagus with the deceased, presumably so that it ...

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