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2500 BC| c. 2500 BC | India [animal husbandry] | Elephants are domesticated in India. | | c. 2500 BC | Mesopotamia, South Asia [buildings] | Highly advanced water-supply systems, involving wells, storage reservoirs, aqueducts, and canals, are built along the Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, and Indus rivers. | | c. 2500 BC | Egypt, India [materials] | The art of dyeing fabrics begins in Egypt. The practice probably began earlier in India with indigo. | | c. 2500 BC | Egypt [materials] | The Egyptians make glass beads – the earliest glass objects known. The glass is cut and polished after cooling, rather than moulded while hot. | | c. 2500 BC | China [medicine] | The practice of acupuncture is developed in China. | | c. 2500 BC | Egypt [philosophy] | Ptahhotep, governor of Memphis at the time of the 5th dynasty of Egypt, writes the first known book of philosophy, his Instructions to his son. | | c. 2500 BC | Babylon [thought and scholarship] | A temple in the Babylonian city of Nippur is filled with clay tablets to create the first known library. | | c. 2500 BC | Egypt [tools] | Metal mirrors, made of highly polished silver, gold, and bronze, are used in Egypt. |
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