Phoenician alphabet emerges
~1050 BCE · Event
First widely used consonantal alphabet; ancestor of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic scripts.
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Around 1050 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Reign of Ramesses II (1279 BCE)
- Upanishads composed (800 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)
- Reign of King David (1010 BCE)