EARLY BRONZE AGE ASIA
2,700 BC - 1,600 BC
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KING CHI WU AKA "THE RED DEVIL," A DONG-I,
USES BRONZE WEAPONS TO UNIFY KOREA, MANCHURIA, SE SIBERIA,
NE CHINA, SE CHINA, TIBET, N LAOS, N VIETNAM, NE BURMA,
MARKING THE START OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR CALENDAR (2,700 BC)





DURING CHI WU'S DYNASTY IN EAST ASIA, HUNDREDS OF PYRAMIDS,
SOME AS LARGE AS THE LARGEST CENTRAL AMERICAN OR EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS,
ARE ERECTED IN MANCHURIA, KOREA, NE CHINA, TIBET (2,700 BC-2,333 BC)




DURING CHI WU'S 367 YEAR DYNASTY, ACUPUNCTURE IS DISCOVERED,
THE FIRST CALLIGRAPHY IS INSCRIBED ON ORACULAR TURTLE SHELLS & ANIMAL BONES,
AND THE INVENTION OF SILK WEAVING PRODUCES THE FIRST CLOTHING FROM SILK





SCYTHIA, WITH CAPITAL IN KAZAKHSTAN,
CONQUERS IRAN, TURKMENISTAN, AFGHANISTAN (2,700 BC)





THE SUBJECT OF AN EPIC POEM INSCRIBED ON CLAY TABLETS,
KING GILGAMESH UNIFIES THE ASIATIC TRIBES OF MESOPOTAMIA,
FROM THE TIGRIS & EUPHRATES IN IRAQ TO E SYRIA, JORDAN,
KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR, ARABIA (2,700 BC)




THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION,
CREATED BY CITY-DWELLING AUSTRALOID TRIBES
IN PAKISTAN AND NORTHERN INDIA,
HAS RUNNING WATER, TOILETS, AND PUBLIC BATHS (2,700 BC)




EURASIA AT THE END OF THE STONE AGE & BEGINNING OF THE BRONZE AGE (2,700 BC)




TANGUN, A DONG-I, ESTABLISHES ANCIENT CHOSON,
THE FIRST HISTORICAL DYNASTY OF KOREA,
IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA, MANCHURIA, NE CHINA (2,333 BC)
WITH CAPITAL AT PYONGYANG IN NORTH KOREA

TANGUN'S EXCAVATED TOMB IN PYONGYANG




SARGON ESTABLISHES ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA (2,333 BC)
CENTERED AROUND THE TIGRIS & EUPHRATES RIVERS IN IRAQ




MINOAN CIVILIZATION ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE
IS ESTABLISHED BY ASIATIC SCYTHIANS FROM TURKEY (2,333 BC)




THRACE IS ESTABLISHED BY ASIATIC SCYTHIANS
IN ROMANIA, BULGARIA, MOLDOVA, SERBIA, BOSNIA,
CROATIA, SLOVENIA, ALBANIA, MACEDONIA, GREECE (2,333 BC)




KURGAN BURIAL MOUND CULTURE IS ESTABLISHED BY ASIATIC SCYTHIANS
IN THE UKRAINE, ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, BELARUS, POLAND,
CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, AUSTRIA, GERMANY (2,333 BC)





BRONZE AGE EURASIA (2,333 BC)




INVENTION OF THE WAR CHARIOT IN ANCIENT CHOSON (1,800 BC)
REVOLUTIONIZES THE ART OF WAR THROUGHOUT ASIA




"SHANG," CENTERED AROUND THE SHANTUNG PENINSULA IN NE CHINA,
IS A SMALL BUT CULTURALLY ADVANCED REGION OF ANCIENT CHOSON (1,700 BC)
THAT PRODUCES MAGNIFICENT BRONZEWARES




SCYTHIANS, ARMED WITH CHARIOTS, INVADE, CONQUER, AND DESTROY
THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION IN PAKISTAN & NORTHERN INDIA (1,700 BC)





HITTITES, AN ASIATIC TRIBE ARMED WITH CHARIOTS,
ESTABLISH AN EMPIRE IN TURKEY & SYRIA (1,700 BC)




HYKSOS, AN ASIATIC TRIBE FROM MESOPOTAMIA ARMED WITH CHARIOTS,
CONQUER AND RULE NEGROID-INHABITED LEBANON, PALESTINE, EGYPT
FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS (1,700 BC)




ASIATIC THRACIANS, ARMED WITH CHARIOTS,
ESTABLISH THE MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION IN GREECE (1,700 BC)




SARCOPHAGUS OF AH-HOTEP
MOTHER OF THE LAST HYKSO PHARAOH OF EGYPT (1,600 BC)




ASIATIC HYKSOS ARE EXPELLED FROM AFRICA (1,600 BC)
AS THE EGYPTIANS RECONQUER EGYPT, PALESTINE, LEBANON




IN EGYPT, PALESTINE, AND LEBANON, THE HYKSOS,
INCLUDING THE ASIATIC JEWS OF PALESTINE,
ARE ENSLAVED BY THE CONQUERING EGYPTIANS (1,600 BC)




BRONZE AGE EURASIA (1,600 BC)


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