1800–1701 BC25 events11 regions
18th century BC
In the 18th century BC: 25 events across 11 regions, including Caral–Supe (Norte Chico) civilization, Sintashta culture, First palaces of Minoan Crete.
Events
Western and Central Europe
- Raising of the great Bornhöck barrowc. 1800 BC
- Burial with the Mold gold capebetween 1900 and 1600 BC
Eastern Europe
- Copper mining resumes at Kargaly in the Late Bronze Agebetween 1900 and 1700 BC
- Winter dog and wolf sacrifices at Krasnosamarskoebetween 1900 and 1700 BC
Balkans and Anatolia
- Old Assyrian merchant colony at Kaneshc. 1950 BC – c. 1730 BC
- First palaces of Minoan Cretec. 1900 BC – c. 1750 BC
- Sarıkaya palace at Acemhöyük: latest construction timbers felledbetween 1794 and 1785 BC
- Anitta of Kussara destroys Hattusabetween 1740 and 1725 BC
Middle East and Egypt
- Plimpton 322, a Babylonian table of Pythagorean triplesc. 1800 BC
- Weld-Blundell Prism, the fullest copy of the Sumerian King Listc. 1800 BC
- Reign of Sobekneferu, Egypt's first securely attested female kingc. 1799 BC – c. 1795 BC
- Reign of Hammurabi of Babylon1792–1750 BC
- Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadimbetween 1875 and 1650 BC
- Laws of Hammurabic. 1753 BC
Africa
- Classic Kerma — the height of the Nubian kingdomc. 1750 BC – c. 1480 BC
- Gajiganna culture of the Lake Chad plainsc. 1800 BC – between 500 and 1 BC
Central and Northern Asia
- Sintashta culturec. 2040 BC – c. 1730 BC
South Asia
- Neolithic ashmound on Sannarachamma hill at Sanganakallubetween 1950 and 1900 BC – between 1900 and 1700 BC
East Asia
- Shimao: the stone-walled city of the Shimao culturec. 2300 BC – c. 1800 BC
- Ōyu Stone Circlesbetween 2000 and 1500 BC
- Erlitou culturec. 1750 BC – c. 1530 BC
Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Phùng Nguyên culturec. 1800 BC – c. 1400 BC
North America
- Poverty Point culturec. 1730 BC – c. 1350 BC
Latin America
- Caral–Supe (Norte Chico) civilizationc. 3000 BC – c. 1800 BC
- Wairajirca pottery of the Huánuco basinc. 1750 BC – c. 1150 BC
Still going on
Processes that began earlier and continued through this period
- Valdivia culturec. 4400 BC – c. 1600 BC · Latin America
- Ahar–Banas culturec. 3000 BC – c. 1500 BC · South Asia
- Okunev culturebetween 2600 and 2501 BC – between 1700 and 1601 BC · Central and Northern Asia
- Oxus civilisation (Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex)c. 2250 BC – c. 1700 BC · Central and Northern Asia
- Únětice culturec. 2300 BC – c. 1600 BC · Western and Central Europe
- Argaric culture of south-eastern Iberiac. 2200 BC – c. 1550 BC · Western and Central Europe
- Burial mounds and royal tombs of Early Dilmunc. 2050 BC – c. 1700 BC · Middle East and Egypt
- Hạ Long culturec. 2550 BC – c. 1050 BC · Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Urn cemeteries of the copper-smelting communities of eastern Serbiac. 2000 BC – c. 1500 BC · Balkans and Anatolia
- Vatya culturec. 2000 BC – c. 1500 BC · Western and Central Europe
- Ochre Coloured Pottery culture and the Copper Hoardsc. 2000 BC – c. 1500 BC · South Asia
- Siba culturebetween 1900 and 1801 BC – between 1500 and 1401 BC · East Asia
- Lower Xiajiadian culturec. 2000 BC – c. 1300 BC · East Asia
- Saqqaq culturec. 2500 BC – c. 800 BC · North America
- Late Harappan transformation of the Indus citiesc. 1900 BC – c. 1300 BC · South Asia
- Cemetery H culturec. 1900 BC – c. 1300 BC · South Asia
- Andronovo cultural communityc. 2000 BC – c. 1150 BC · Central and Northern Asia
- Srubnaya (Timber-grave) culturec. 1900 BC – c. 1200 BC · Eastern Europe
- Tichitt tradition of the Mauritanian escarpmentsc. 2000 BC – c. 400 BC · Africa