XIVe front century J. - C.

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Events

glacial Push attested by the peat bog of the glacier of Fernau (the Tyrol), between -1400 and -1300. The final language of the glacier, to 750 m in front of the maximum of 1850, reached its greater extension of the postglacial age.

Blooming of the civilization of the Shang which install their capital, Yin, close to Anyang. Chinese colonists essaiment by compact groups to go to create new surfaces of clearing towards the basin of the Yangzi Jiang in the south, the terraces of the Shanxi in the North-West and the valley of the Wei He.
Shang seem to frequently be then in war with the populations still not sinicized which live the valley of the Huai He.

the warlike people of the Achaens finished the conquest of the Peloponnese and Cyprus, and built colossal fortifications around the cities located in height: Mycènes, Tirynthe. Their weapons are in Bronze and they use the tank which they introduce in Crete.

In Greece, Thèbes is destroyed, certainly by an internal war.
Construction of the palates of Tirynthe and Pylos (v. -1400).
Rebuilding of the palate and cyclopean enclosure with Mycènes (v. -1380).
Construction of the Cadmée, fortress of Thèbes by mythical the Cadmos.
Potteries mycéniennes meadows of Sarajevo, on the Ionian islands, in Tuscan.
Migration of Mycéniens in Sicily and in the islands Lipari. Creation of a colony with Tarente which trades with in Adriatique and until Luni, in Etrurie.
Probable forwarding of the Argonautes towards the Euxine Sea, organized by Mycènes, to open the access to the gold of the Colchide. It seems in any case that Mycéniens established counters with Éphèse, Milet and Colophon.
the deciphering of the writing mycénienne, linear B, near to the antiquated Greek, proves that Mycéniens were undoubtedly the Indo-European ones.

Aryan Kings in Occidental Asia.
Raid of the Lukka (pirate of the S. - O. of Anatolia) on the kingdom of Alashiya of Cyprus.
Beginning of the permanent human occupation of Acre.
Installation of the Moabites in Palestine.
Apogee of Ougarit in Phénicie (- 1400, -1250).
Long bronze swords slicing in Mésopotamie.

With the XIVe, the Semitic tribes, ancestors of the Jews, is exiled towards Egypt, where will be born the Judaïsme, revealed by Moïse, as a first religion monotheist.
the Pharaon Akhénaton makes build, with El-Armana, a new capital dedicated to the god-sun Aton, given up a few years after its death.

In China, the ceramics of Side-Chan evolves to an indigenous decoration in checkerwork, imitated basket making.
Cemetery of Xibeigang, with Anyang (14th-11th centuries).

engraved or carved Reliefs Alaça Hüyük, in Anatolia (14th-13th centuries): large sphinges of the amounts of the doors treated in protomés, low relief of the orthostates treated in flat part according to the traditional mode hittite.
Relief of the warlike god guard of the “door of the king” with Hattusa (14th century).

regular Exchanges of invaluable and rare goods between kings Egyptiens, Hittites, of the Mitanni and Babylon.

the trade Levantine plays a big role with Thanks to the files of Such el-Amarna and those deprived, of Ougarit and Emar, we have information on the goods which circulated, but it is impossible to evaluate the quantitative importance of this trade. The exchanges relate initially to the weighty products: wood of the Lebanon and the Amanus towards the Egypt and the Mésopotamie, ingots of Copper of Cyprus or Egée in the shape of ox skins towards Egypt and the East, tin come from Iran, noble metals. Great quantities of ceramics mycéniennes or Cypriot are present on all the coastal sites, sometimes even rather far inside the grounds (valley of the the Jordan), often used as funerary furniture but also as domestic material. Some were used to transport more or less invaluable food products (oils, perfumes and various gasolines), but of others could be exchanged because of their esthetic qualities. Manufactured fabrics and objects (tanks sent to Cyprus by the Egyptians, boats requested from Alashiya by a Pharaon), horses raised in the pastures of Qatna for export, sheep, objects and materials invaluable (boxes out of invaluable wooden Syrian, defenses of Syrian or African elephants, ivories of hippopotamuses, lapis lazuli of Afghanistan snuffed Egyptians and Hittites) are the subject also of this trade. A whole collection of seals Kassites travelled until Thèbes in Béotie.

Organization in China of the Shang of body of infantrymen and archers in companies of one hundred men, use of tanks. Armament made up of large arcs manufactured starting from horns and tendons of Bovidae, arrows provided with feathers and point out of wooden of stag, bone, shell or bronze, small knife of bronze with stone to be sharpened, bronze halberd, leather shield tended on a wood framework and decorated with a tiger.

alphabetical Writing attested by the texts of Ougarit in Phénicie (-1400/-1380). The scribes use the wedge-shaped writing to transcribe an alphabet of 30 signs, which return the consonants. In this form, the system will not survive the fall of the city.

Development of the pastoral nomadism in the steppes of the Central Asia; the cattle is supervised with horse.

the blacksmiths Hittites discover the secrecy of the metallurgy of the Fer in Asia Mineure or Syria.

With the Denmark, representation on rupestral engravings and the objects of bronze of long ships, driven by oars, without skittle and with the raised poop.

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