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Events:

• Second dynasty of Babylon
• First Bantu migrations from west Africa
• Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia ( 1900 BC)
• Civilization in Palestine ( 1800 BC)
• Middle Kingdom in Egypt ( 2052– 1570 BC)
• Egyptian domination over Palestine and SyriaThe Syrian Arab Republic is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering (from south to north) on Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. The border with Israel is subject to dispute, pending the resolution of outstanding conflicts over possession of the Gola ( 160018th century BC 17th century BC 16th century BC other centuries) ( 1690s BC 1680s BC 1670s BC 1660s BC 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC other decades) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 1700 1500– 1360 BC15th century BC 14th century BC 13th century BC other centuries) ( 1400s BC 1390s BC 1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC 1340s BC 1330s BC 1320s BC 1310s BC 1300s BC other decades) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 1344 1322)
• Conquest of CanaanThis article is about the land called Canaan. For other meanings see Canaan (disambiguation). Canaan or Kna'an Standard Hebrew Knaan Tiberian Hebrew Knaan / Knan Septuagint Greek Khanaan is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day (Palestine) by the Israelites
• MycenaeanMycenaean can have the following meanings: coming from or belonging to the ancient town of Mycenae in Attica in Greece; belonging to the culture of the Mycenaean period of the eastern Mediterranean in the late Bronze Age; the Mycenaean language, an ancien civilization (c. 1600 BC18th century BC 17th century BC 16th century BC other centuries) ( 1690s BC 1680s BC 1670s BC 1660s BC 1650s BC 1640s BC 1630s BC 1620s BC 1610s BC 1600s BC 1590s BC other decades) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 1700 1500– 1200 BC13th century BC 12th century BC 11th century BC other centuries) ( 1200s BC 1190s BC 1180s BC 1170s BC 1160s BC 1150s BC 1140s BC 1130s BC 1120s BC 1110s BC 1100s BC other decades) ( 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC) Events 1200 BC An)
• Athens founded ( 1235 BC)
• Beginnings of Judaism ( 1200 BC)
• Olmec civilization in Mesoamerica ( 1150 BC)
• Fall of Troy ( 1184 BC)

Significant people:

• Hammurabi, Babylonian king and law maker( 1792– 1745 BC)
• Egyptian Pharaohs Akhenaton and Rameses II of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
• Shalmaneser I, Assyrian king ( 1274–1275 BC)
• Moses, Israelite Leader of the Exodus

Inventions, discoveries, introductions:

• Indians developed caste system
• Horse domesticated
• Chinese record the earliest known sighting of a comet

Centuries: