composed? Original Ramayana? Rig Veda 1070 BCE. Fall of New Kingdom in Egypt 1046 BCE Fall of Shang dynasty in China and beginning of the Zhou ? 1000 BCE Sin-liqe-unninni's Gilgamesh ; Zarathustra 950 BCE First Jerusalem Temple; Solomon 900 BCE Carthage founded; Upanishads 753 BCE Rome founded 612 BCE Burial