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1737 BCE

This year falls in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (c. 2000–1200 BCE). Kingdoms in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Aegean trade, make treaties and fight across the eastern Mediterranean, and late in the period Shang China leaves the earliest known Chinese writing. The era ends with the collapse of several of these states around 1200 BCE.

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Civilization · Middle and Late Bronze Age · Mycenaean GreeceMycenaean Greecec. 1750–1050 BCEMycenaean Greece was the civilization of the Iliad: warrior kings in walled citadels who sailed against Troy. Its palaces at Mycenae and Pylos kept the first Greek writing. It collapsed about 1050 BCE in the Bronze Age catastrophe.