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
• Shang Dynasty instituted in China

Significant people

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