XVIIIe front century J. - C.

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Events

Pyramids and temples in terraces of Tired Haldas, on the northern coast of the Peru.

Separation of the tribes Aryan born and Iranian.
Decline of the civilization of the Indus (floods caused by the changes of the course of the rivers, invasions of chalcolithic tribes of central and southernmost India, decline of the trade with the Middle East?). The large cities are replaced by large villages with the more local radiation.
the golden age the commercial interiranien, marked by the presence of many “treasures” and rich metropolises (cut on foot and truncated bowl) seems to end towards -1800/-1700, at the moment when the texts mésopotamiens cease speaking about the Eastern trade. The great agglomerations of Turkménie Eastern (Altyn-depe and Namazga-depe) are abandoned and the large metropolises of the valley of Indus disappear. In the territory corresponding to the age of Indus; the process of regionalization is accentuated with the disappearance of the elements most characteristic of the unit harappéenne: the writing, seals or weights. Many elements however survive the length of thousand-year-old IIe in the Eastern and southernmost areas of the zone.

the decline of the age of Indus at the 18th century causes the stop of the exchanges with the Eastern circumference of the Iran: the Gulf, the Bactriane, Turkménie and the plain of Gorgan are hard affected in turn and the whole of the urban life crumbles in these areas. The State élamite remains in its duality and Suse remains a big city, but it is possible that Anshan, while forming the point of balance of the kingdom, knew an eclipse as an urban center.

{{XVIIIe}} - 19th century: emigration of Semitic tribes of Chaldée (Ur, according to the tradition), led by Abraham, towards Harra, in country araméen. According to the biblical tradition, the descendants of Abraham will be sédentariseront in the mountain of Juda, close to Hebron.
Palestine knows one boom (- 1800, -1600): Hazor, Such Your' anak, Megiddo, Sichem, Jericho, Beitn Mirsim, Such ED-Duweir.

Qatna, in the plain of Homs, is famous for its pastures, its breeding of horses and its rich person agriculture. It is with a crossing of the North-South center line of East-West highway binding Palmyre to the the Mediterranean, but the importance of the desert track is difficult to estimate at one time when the Chameau was not still introduced (a letter of Shamshi-Adad I {{er}}, which made traverse this way by its army since High Mésopotamie until Qatna attests it however). The correspondence of Husband watch that Ishki-Adad, king de Qatna, wove close relations with Shamshi-Adad, and that its successor, Amutpiel, makes some as much with Zimri-Lim.

Such Harmal/Shaduppum, small city of Babylonia, locked up in its walls, appears towards -1800 like a local administrative center depend on the kingdom of Eshnunna. Its restricted dimensions, which let recognize a new city, shelter a temple however double, several small sanctuaries, an administrative building or resided the representative of the king and the districts of dwelling. Only the economic center could not be localized with certainty, but perhaps was it to have only little importance since the principal function was administrative.

Towards -1800 front J. - C., of the Semitic immigrants of Canaan start to be established in the delta of the the Nile. These immigrants are known under the name of Hyksôs.
1794-1781 before J. - C., the first paintings of Juggler S with the balls.

Average Bronze II in Greece (- 1800 to -1700).
Beginning of the installation of the Achaens in Greece, in the years 1750 av. J. - C. coming from north. They drive back the Pélasges in the heights and go, in the two following centuries, to constitute small kingdoms on banks of the Aegean Sea. With their bronze armor and their long sword, the Achaens are right of the shield and the triangular dagger of the Aegean ones.

Inscribed menhirs in Corsica.
First hypogean and Dolmen S in the Balearic Islands, the Sicily and the Sardinia of which some remain of use until thousand-year-old Ier. Furniture is chalcolithic and campaniform.

Indo-European Migrations, come from southernmost Russia by the Finland then the Sweden, towards Scandinavia (- 1800, -1500). These new arrivals are characterized by employment from sleeve axes known as “naviformes”.
House of Troldebjerg (Langeland, Denmark).

In India, vedic literature of the Brâhmana S (according to the tradition).
the female figurines and of bull with bump of the Indus disappear with the profit from statuettes from riders, horses and camels with two bumps.
Ceramic ribboned in Scandinavia. Evolution of the funerary rites and beginning of the incineration.

Towards 1730 av. J. - C., drafting of the Code of Hammourabi, the first legislative code of the history of humanity.
Innovation in the armament in the Middle East: tank of war with two wheels, ram of defensive seat and glacis.
Introduction of the Horse in Egypt.
Culture of rice and the sorghum in India.
agriculture penetrates in central India, associated with a ceramics decorated with reasons naturalists and geometrical (Navdatoli) or with a black and red pottery (Ahar).
First use of the horses to draw from the light carriages in the Western steppes from the Russia. Parts of bit found in tombs “in log” attest that the horses are assembled but also used to draw from the vehicles.
Agriculture in Scandinavia (barley, corn, German wheat), breeding (cow, pig, sheep).

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