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1600s BC

Centuries: 18th century BC - 17th century BC - 16th century BC

Decades: 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC - 1600s BC - 1590s BC 1580s BC 1570s BC 1560s BC 1550s BC

1600s BC - Events and trends

• 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.

1600s BC - Significant people

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