Zhou ritual vessel (Kang Hou gui)
c. 1100-1000 BC · Resource
A bronze ritual food vessel of the early Western Zhou, its interior inscription commemorating the suppression of a Shang rebellion. Such gui were used in ancestor-worship ceremonies.
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Around 1050 BCE
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Upanishads composed (800 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Oracle bone script in use (1250 BCE)
- King David (1010 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- David captures Jerusalem (1000 BCE)
- King Solomon (970 BCE)