• Hittites produced the first iron tools and weapons and destroyed Babylon [1531, Iron Age]. Kassites, who came from mountains east of Babylon, governed Babylon for 300 years [1531/1225].
• The Bantu began a 2500-year long expansion [1500 BCE/1000 CE] across nearly all of southern Africa.
• New Kingdom Egypt expanded into Syria [1479/1370] and Nubia [1459/1035].
• Mycenae, a city on mainland Greece, conquered the island of Crete and took its place as a center of trade [1450/1100].