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1500 BC| 1500 BC | China [astronomy] | Chinese astronomers make the earliest record of an appearance of a comet. | | c. 1500 BC | India [Hinduism] | The Hindu Vedic hymns and religious rituals become established in India. | | c. 1500 BC | Europe [everyday life] | The Urnfield cultures flourish in this and the following century in England (in Wessex), southern Germany, and Denmark. The Urnfield people are pastoral rather than agricultural, use bronze extensively, and are ruled by a warrior class of aristocracy. They cremate chiefs and their families and place the remains in urns which are then interred in cemeteries. The culture continues into the Iron Age (c. 700 BC). | | c. 1500 BC | Central America, North America, South America [everyday life] | Neolithic skills similar to those in Europe – weaving, basketmaking, pottery, the building of houses, and the formation of villages – develop in the Americas, as well as a priest class. The use of iron, the wheel, the plough, and money will not develop until the coming of European colonialists. | | c. 1500 BC | Asia Minor [materials] | The Hittites of Asia Minor are the first to discover how to obtain iron from iron ore. Although iron is the second most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, metallic iron is only known from the rare discovery of iron-rich meteorites. | | c. 1500 BC | China [transport] | Wheeled vehicles appear in China. |
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