1600s BC (decade)
Decade
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The 1600s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1609 BC to December 31, 1600 BC.
Events and trends
- EgyptâEnd of Fourteenth Dynasty.[1]
- The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna).
- The end of the Indus Valley civilization.
- The overthrow of the ruling Amorite dynasty in Aleppo, Syria.
- The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
- Egypt conquered by Asian tribes known as the Hyksosâsee History of ancient Israel and Judah.
- 1600 BCâShang dynasty instituted in China.
- 1600 BCâTumulus culture started.
- c.â1600 BCâNebra skydisk created in what is now Germany.
- c.â1600 BCâThe foundations of the Olmec civilization in southern Mexico.
- c.â1600 BCâCycladic civilization ends.
- c.â1600 BCâ1550 BCâ"Mask of Agamemnon" Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made. Grave Circle A. It is now at National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
- c.â1600 BCâ1200 BCâHittite (Anatolia) iron tools and weapons.
- c.â1600 BC â 1200 BCâTiryns, Ancient Greece, is inhabited.
- c.â1600 BCâKings and princes on the mainland Greece have begun building large aboveground burial places commonly referred to as beehive tombs because of their rounded, conical shape.
- c.â1600 BCâHittites establish capital at Hattusa (near modern BoÄazkale, Turkey).