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2683 BCE to 282 · showing importance 4+ · 12 more at deeper zoom contested unproven debunked legendary
2600 BCE2400 BCE2200 BCE2000 BCE1800 BCE1600 BCE1400 BCE1200 BCE1000 BCE800 BCE600 BCE400 BCE200 BCE1200Bronze Age (Near East and Mediterranean)Bronze AgeBronze AgeIron Age (Near East and Mediterranean)Iron AgeIron AgeClassical antiquity (Mediterranean)Classical antiquityClassical antiquityBabylonian base-60 math gives us the hour and the circle In: Babylon and its long shadowBabylonian base-60 math gives us the ho…Code of Hammurabi sets law under a king In: Babylon and its long shadow, Forms of government: how societies rule themselves, State, law, and coercionCode of Hammurabi sets law under a kingThe Epic of Gilgamesh and the flood before Noah In: Babylon and its long shadowThe Epic of Gilgamesh and the flood bef…Babylon destroys Jerusalem and carries off the Jews In: Babylon and its long shadowBabylon destroys Jerusalem and carries …Cyrus the Persian takes Babylon and frees the Jews In: Babylon and its long shadowCyrus the Persian takes Babylon and fre…Babylon divides the sky into the twelve signs of the zodiac In: Babylon and its long shadowBabylon divides the sky into the twelve…

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