1500 p.e.v.

Earliest remains of domesticated ferrets found.
== Africa ==
Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt (Eighteenth Dynasty). The element mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade. By now, the Egyptians have started to remove mummy brains to thwart Saminga.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Egypt
* Libu
* Punt
== Asia ==
Many scholars date early parts of the Rig Veda to roughly the 16th century.
Settlers from Crete & Greece move to Miletus, Turkey.
The Phoenicians develop an alphabet.
Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries.
Coalescence of a number of cultural traits including undecorated pottery, megalithic burials, and millet-bean-rice agriculture indicate the beginning of the Mumun Pottery Period in the Korean peninsula.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Amorites
* Armi
* Aramea
* Arzawa
* Assyria
* Babylonia
* Byblos
* Dilmun
* Ebla
* Elam
* Eshnuna
* Gojoseon
* Hittite Empire
* Hyksos
* Kassite Empire
* Indus
* Kizzuwatna
* Lukka
* Lullubi
* Luvia
* Magan
* Mari
* Mittani
* Namar
* Purushanda
* Qi
* Qiang
* Sea Peoples
* Sumpa
* Tyre
* Ugarit
* Upper Mesopotamia
* Văn Lang
* Xu
== Europe ==
Mycenaean civilization starts in Greece. Eleusinian mysteries start.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Athens
* Dardania
* Illyria
* Minoa
* Mycenaea
* Mygdonia
* Pelasgia
* Thrace
== North America ==
Formative/Preclassic Period starts in Mesoamerica.
Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize.
=== Sovereign Political Entities ===
* Chorrera
== Oceania ==
Polynesians settle in Fiji
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