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The Amarna tablets contain extensive correspondence between the Akhenaten government in Egypt and subject princes in Phoenicia
Seafarers reach and colonize Fiji, lying between Melanesia and Polynesia
An indecisve battle between the Hittites and the Egyptians, at Kadesh, stabilizes the frontier between the two empires
The Phoenicians develop the war galley, with a sharp battering ram in the bow
Phoenician sailors use the pole star for navigational purposes
Athens, not reached by the invading Dorians, becomes a surviving outpost of Mycenaean civilization
The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament
Petra acquires importance and wealth from its position on caravan routes from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
The abacus is used as an everyday method of calculation by Phoenicians and Babylonians
By now the mammoth, the giant bison and the horse are all extinct in America, partly because of the warming climate and partly because of the success of humans with spears
Tyre and Sidon have by now replaced Byblos as the dominant cities within Phoenicia
Iron reheated with carbon is found to be much harder, being transformed into steel
Burial mounds feature in the Ohio valley, built first in the Adena culture and then by Hopewell tribes
Hiram, the Phoenician king of Tyre, is an enthusiastic trading partner of King David in Jerusalem, and later of Solomon
Libyans in the Egyptian army take control of the nation and rule as pharaohs
Wood from the famous cedars of Lebanon is only one of the many luxury goods traded by the Phoenicians
With the encouragements of Athens, non-Dorian Greeeks migrate to form colonies on the west coast of Anatolia
Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region
Citium, in Cyprus, is the first of many Phoenician colonies in the Mediterranean
The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine
The traditional date of the founding of Carthage (supposedly by the mythical queen Dido, but in practice by Phoenicians)
The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber
The inhabitants of Sparta organize their society on military lines and consider themselves the descendants of the Dorians
The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery
The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega
