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  Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 16th century BC the Minoans came to Rhodes, and later Greek mythography recalled a Rhodian race they called the Telchines, and associated Rhodes with Danaus; it was sometimes nicknamed Telchinis.
In 408 BC the cities united to form one territory, and built a new capital on the northern end of the island, the : its regular plan was superintended by the Athenian architect Hippodamus.
In 164 BC, Rhodes signed a treaty with Rome, and became a major schooling center for Roman noble families, and was especially noted for its teachers of rhetoric, such as Hermagoras and the author of the Rhetorica ad Herennium.
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 Encyclopedia: 16th century BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Assyria
bc), succeeded in extending the territory of Assyria from the Zagros Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea.
As a result of these migrations and wanderings, the 16th century bc was one of turmoil in Mesopotamian history.
Assyria remained in subjection until early in the 14th century, when the Mitanni Kingdom suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the rising empire of the Hittites to the north.
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 1480s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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1487 BC - Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of Cranaus.
Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty (1503 BC - 1450 BC).
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 Chinese food history and culture page 2
Centuries of migration, amalgamation, and development brought about a distinctive system of writing, philosophy, art, and political organization that came to be recognizable as Chinese civilization.
Chinese history, until the twentieth century, was written mostly by members of the ruling scholar-official class and was meant to provide the ruler with precedents to guide or justify his policies.
In 771 B.C. the Zhou court was sacked, and its king was killed by invading barbarians who were allied with rebel lords.
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 GlassOnline.com -A Brief History of Glass
The oldest fragments of glass vases (evidence of the origins of the hollow glass industry), however, date back to the 16th century BC and were found in Mesopotamia.
After 1500 BC, Egyptian craftsmen are known to have begun developing a method for producing glass pots by dipping a core mould of compacted sand into molten glass and then turning the mould so that molten glass adhered to it.
By the end of the 16th century, 3,000 of the island's 7,000 inhabitants were involved in some way in the glassmaking industry.
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 16th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The six shaft graves (16th century BC) were later incorporated in the walled citadel (1250 BC, Grave Circle A).
Outside the citadel were residential quarters, dense clusters of chamber tombs and nine tholos tombs (15th-13th century BC).
In the 6th century BC a temple of Athena and perhaps of Hera too was built upon the ruins of the prehistoric citadel.
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 CalendarHome.com - 16th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
1539 BC - End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the Eighteenth Dynasty
1525 BC - End of Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt
Around 1500 BC -- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England
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 Understanding Persian fashion in the 16th century requires careful study of multiple sources
The tāj was a close-fitting skullcap, which by late 16th century tapered into a long point from the center of the crown and was made of felted wool.
Prior to the 16th century, descendants of Mohammad wore a green mandīl.
In the late 16th century, the female rūyi qāba was cut with a straight front and did not have the crossover panel worn by the men.
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 Paper manufacture in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From the 10th to the 18th Century, during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, bark-based paper types from the mulberry tree and bamboo became very popular.
In the 7th Century paper manufacturing techniques found their way to Japan via Korea, and were introduced to Arabia via Central Asia in the middle of the 8th Century.
In around the 16th Century paper finally replaced the traditional parchment, which was produced in a laborious process from animal skins.
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 17th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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1628 BC -- Estimated date of the volcanic eruption on Thera which possibly affected the fate of Minoan civilization.
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 1550s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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1556 BC - Cecrops builds or rebuilds Athens following the great flood of Deucalion and the end of the Golden age.
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 Hatshepsut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1482 BC) was the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
She is believed to have ruled from 1503 BC to 1482 BC.
At first it seemed that Hatshepsut was patterning herself after the powerful female regents of Egypt's then recent history, but as Thutmose III approached his majority it became apparent that she had only one model in mind: Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Twelfth dynasty, who ruled in her own right.
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 ETHNIC PROCESSES IN BALTIC-INHABITED TERRITORIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE LATVIAN NATION IN THE 6th TO THE 16th CENTURY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the residents of Kurzeme gradually replaced their fire graves with skeletal graves in which the dead were buried in a Northwest-Southeast direction.
The same orientation was also prevalent among Selonians and Livs in the 14th and 15th century, and in the 16th and 17th century it became dominant among all local inhabitants in Latvia.
Based on the facts stated by the aforementioned authors, specialists have concluded with some certainty48 that in the 16th century, a unified Latvian nation resided in the territory of Latvia and that the main indicator of this was a unified language.
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 1550s BC : 1550 BC
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The city of Mycenae, located in the northeast Peloponnesus, came to dominate the rest of Achaea and formed the Mycenaean Civilization.
The gloss to which I refer is the assumption that the "air- to higher, from simple to complex--the place of which lies above--and I speak of it as a "gloss," because the pentateuchal "lower" or less "complex" than the land-population.
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 1500s BC Details, Meaning 1500s BC Article and Explanation Guide
1500 BC - 100 BC - Indus valley civilization - series of raids or small scale migrations by the Aryans from the North-West of Indian Sub-continent.
Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1518 - 1504 BC).
Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1503 BC - 1450 BC).
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 New Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Kingdom is the period in Egyptian history between the 16th century BCE and the 11th century BCE, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt.
Under his reign, in the 14th century BCE, Egyptian art flourished and attained an unprecedented level of realism.
Another celebrated pharaoh was Ramesses II ("the Great"), who sought to recover territories in modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria that had been held by Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt.
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 Renaissance tragedy and investigator heroes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
429 bc) the identity of Oedipus is a mystery, the unravelling of which influences the movement of the plot.
From the late eighteenth century on, it ceased being presented on the stage as a terrifying figure and becomes a majestic figure before whom Hamlet kneels in reverence, ready to do his bidding.' This was also how other critics regarded it.
The twelfth century legend of Amleth which is recorded in Saxo Grammaticus's 'Historie Tragiques' and which probably is the source of Hamlet, clearly presents Amleth as an avenger who feigns madness in order to find out the secret of his father's murder.
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 Kizzuwadna --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Kizzuwadna concluded a treaty with the Hittite kingdom in the late 16th century
Kizzuwadna concluded a treaty with the Hittite kingdom in the late 16th century BC and remained a major independent power until after 1340 BC, when it was reduced to a Hittite vassal state by Suppiluliumas I. In the famous Battle of Kadesh (1299/1291 BC), Kizzuwadna supplied troops...
It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control in the 15th century BC may have originated in Kizzuwadna.
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 Zantehistory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is believed that the first settlers on Zakynthos came in the 16th century BC from the Peloponnese.
The island was to fall under both Athenian and Spartan rule during the Classic age, and when Philip II of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great expanded the Macedonian borders, Zakynthos became a vassal.
The Romans came in the 2nd century BC and after them, the island became part of the Byzantine empire.
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 16th century BC Definition / 16th century BC Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 TIMELINE 16th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
The 16th Century was a time of great exploration, religious turmoil, political turmoil, scientific advances, and extraordinary literature.
Oddly enough, those chivalric romances were not quite killed by Cervantes, and survived in mutated form in the fantasy novels of the late 20th century.
The flavor of this masterpiece can be found in the late 20th century works of the Strugatsy brothers (always poking fun at Soviet stuffed shirts), the comic fiction of Robert Sheckley, Frederic Brown, or any of the iconoclastic works of SF which exalt the individual.
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 glass blowing in the 16th century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the late 16th century the small German town of Lauscha, then in the Duchy...
It was the 16th century that was known as the Golden Age of Venetian glassmaking.
From the 16th Century, however, attention was increasingly given to attempts...
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 16th century BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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1539 BC - End of Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, start of the (Click link for more info and facts about Eighteenth Dynasty) Eighteenth Dynasty
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 Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Music before the 16th Century
The existence of the lute among the instrumentarium of the late fourth millennium [BC] is of paramount importance as it is consequential to the understanding and usage of ratios at that period.
In the 16th century, a new "golden age" of Persian civilization dawned under the rule of the Safavid dynasty (1499-1746).
In Athens during the second half of the fifth century B.C., the Odeion (roofed concert hall) of Perikles was erected on the south slope of the Athenian akropolis—physical testimony to the importance of music in Athenian culture.
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 OCDF Adoption
Man in China passed from primitive society to slave society in the 21st century BC with the establishment of the first dynasty, the Xia Dynasty.
In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, ended the rivalry among the independent principalities that characterized the Warring States Period and established the first centralized, unified multi-ethnic feudal state in Chinese history.
From early in the 19th century Britain was smuggling large quantities of opium into China, causing a great outflow of Chinese silver and grave economic disruption.
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