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1900 BC| c. 1900 BC | Egypt [painting] | The tomb of Chnemhotep, administrator of the Eastern Desert, is built in Egypt, with wall paintings depicting the great man fishing and fowling, and such captions as ‘how delightful is the day of hunting the hippopotamus’. | | c. 1900 BC | Europe, Italy, Greece [trade] | The ‘amber routes’, the earliest roads in Europe, are built by the Etruscans and Greeks to transport amber and tin from northern Europe to the Mediterranean and Adriatic. They are used until about 300 BC. |
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