Hyksos expelled from Egypt; new model Egyptian army using chariotry and composite bows
Thutmose I claims Syria to the Euphrates; consequent war with Mitani intermittent until 1410 B.C.
Invention of alphabetic writing in Syria
The palaces of Crete destroyed; Mycenaean Greeks dominant in Eastern Mediterranean
The Armana Age; Ikhnaton's religious reforms; Egypt paralyzed by internal problems; Hittite expansion destroys Mitanni
Egyptian revival; wars with Hittites for Syria
Peace between Ramses II and Hittites
Egypt invaded by "sea peoples"; Troy destroyed by Mycenaeans
Iron begins to come into common use; the Mycenaean palace of Pylos is burned; beginning of the breakup of Mycenaean power
The Phillistines (one of the "sea peoples") settle along the Palestine coast
Egypt loses Nubia; camels in common use in north Arabia; use of lime plaster to make watertight cisterns opens dry areas for settlement
reprinted from The Columbia History of the World, 1972, published by Harper & Row, edited by John A. Garraty & Peter Gay