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c. 1250–850 BC: the Urnfield culture, characterized by vast cemeteries housing urns with the ashes of the deceased and offerings, marks the Late Bronze Age in Western Europe. [19] c. 1250–1000 BC: the culture of Pantalica develops inland in Sicily. [20] 1225–1190 BC: Late Helladic IIIB2 in mainland Greece. [21]
1400–1250 BC Babylonia: Babylon Empire 1894–1595 BC Byblos: Byblos Phoenocian city state 1800–970 BC Canaan: Various Confederation of city states 1800–1194 BC Dilmun: Qal'at Kingdom 2600–675 BC Ebla: Ebla Kingdom 3500–1600 BC Elam: Susa Kingdom 2700–1210 BC Eshnuna: Eshnunna Kingdom city state 2000 BC – 8th century BC Gutium ...
Europe has endured thanks in part to Ms. Merkel’s pragmatic stewardship, but it has been battered by crises during her entire time in office. [174] Russia began an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. It is the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World ...
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
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.
1250 BC—Traditional date of the beginning of the Trojan War. c. 1250 BC —Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty, and earliest archaeologically confirmed Chinese monarch begins his reign. c. 1250 BC —Earliest surviving writing from Ancient China. c. 1250 BC —Chariots appear in Ancient China. c. 1250 BC —Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, are made ...
The Flemish town of Douai emits the first recorded redeemable annuities in medieval Europe, confirming a trend of consolidation of local public debt started in 1218, in Rheims. [ 8 ] The Sienese bankers belonging to the firm known as the Gran Tavola , under the steering of the Bonsignori Brothers, become the main financiers of the Papacy.
Alfred W. Crosby described some of this technological revolution in The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 and other major historians of technology have also noted it. Ships of the world in 1460, according to the Fra Mauro map. The earliest written record of a windmill is from Yorkshire, England, dated 1185.