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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