Oracle bone script in use
~1250 BCE · Event
Earliest known Chinese writing, inscribed on ox scapulae and turtle plastrons for divination.
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Around 1250 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)