1500s BC
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Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BC
Decades: 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC
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Events and trends
- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England.
- The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade.
- Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey.
- Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize.
- The Phoenicians develop an alphabet - see Timeline of communication technology.
- 1506 BC - Cecrops, legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
- Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC - 1492 BC).
- Earliest evidence (from archaeological excavations) of a settlement at Aylesbury, England.
- 1500 BC - Indus valley civilization - The controversial Aryan Invasion Theory is often dated to 1500 BC. Many scholars date the Rig Veda to the period of 1900 to 1200 BC.
- Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found.
- The Rig Veda, the oldest scripture of Hinduism, was written around this time.
- Date of the Biblical Exodus, according to Simcha Jacobovich in the documentary Exodus Decoded.
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Significant people
- Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1518 BC - 1504 BC).
- Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1503 BC - 1426 BC).es:Años 1500 adC
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