Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 2000 B.C. through 1501 B.C.
- -2000 to -1501
- The Hittites, Indo-European tribes from Asia Minor, join
together in one single kingdom
- Egyptians in control of Crete and the Aegean Islands
- The Greeks begin to move from the shores of the Caspian
Sea toward the eastern Mediterranean (-2000 to -1000)
- The Jomon people settle in Japan
- Sesostris I of Egypt extends influence to Nubia
- The Hittites attack and plunder Babylon
- Sesostris III (-1887 to -1849) invades Canaan
- Hammurabi, king of Babylonia, reunites kingdom (18th
century B.C.)
- Shang dynasty in China (-1760 to -1122)
- Beginnings of Persian Empire (-1750 to -550)
- Social unrest in Egypt
- Hittite attacks on Syria
- Teutonic settlements in southern Norway
- The Hyksos drive the Egyptians south and form a kingdom in
the Nile Delta (17th century B.C.)
- End of Middle Kingdom
- Decline of Babylonian Empire under Hammurabi's son,
Samsuiluna
- Liberation of Egypt from Hyksos rule by Amosis I marks
beginning of New Kingdom (-1575 to -1200)
- Cecrops, according to tradition, first king of Attica in
Greece
- 18th dynasty brings Egypt to height of its power and achievements
- Amenhotep I (-1555 to -1530)
- Thutmose I (-1530 to -1515)
- Queen Hatshepshut, wife of Thutmose II, rules for Thutmose III
until his coming of age in -1480
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