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The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a period of societal collapse in the Mediterranean basin during the 12th century BC. It is thought to have affected much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, in particular Egypt, Anatolia, the Aegean, eastern Libya, and the Balkans.
The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the ...
Statue of Thutmosis III at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 1504 BC – 1492 BC: Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant. [1]1500 BC – 1400 BC: The Battle of the Ten Kings took place around this time.
40 BC in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: 40 BC XL BC: Ab urbe condita: 714: Ancient Egypt era: XXXIII dynasty, 284 - Pharaoh: Cleopatra VII, 12: Ancient Greek era: 185th Olympiad ()¹ ...
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The 10th century BC comprises the years from 1000 BC to 901 BC. This period followed the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Near East, and the century saw the Early Iron Age take hold there.
309 BCE: Soon after the State of Qin has conquered the State of Shu (in modern-day Sichuan province), they employ the Shu engineer Bi Ling to create the Guanxian irrigation system, which will eventually provide for over five million people in an area of 40 to 50 square miles (130 km 2), still in use today. 308 BCE: Ptolemy crosses from Asia ...