1600 p.e.v.

The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
Gebbeleth, demon prince of Secrets, disappears. No one notices.
== Asia ==
Tang of Shang established the Shang Dynasty.
Hurrian conquests.
The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.
Development of the windmill in Persia.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Amorites
* Armi
* Aramea
* Arzawa
* Assyria
* Babylonia
* Byblos
* Dilmun
* Ebla
* Elam
* Eshnuna
* Gojoseon
* Gutium
* Hitti
* Hittite Empire
* Indus Valley
* Kizzuwatna
* Kussara
* Lukka
* Lullubi
* Luvia
* Magan
* Mittani
* Namar
* Purushanda
* Qi
* Qiang
* Sea Peoples
* Shang
* Sumeria
* Sumpa
* Ugarit
* Upper Mesopotamia
* Văn Lang
* Xu
== Africa ==
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Egypt
* Hyksos
* Punt
== Europe ==
Early Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopean walls, and chariots.
Unetice culture ends in Czech Republic.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Dardania
* Illyria
* Minoa
* Mycenaea
* Mygdonia
* Pelasgia
== North America ==
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Chorrera
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