The Assyrians build the world’s first long-distance canal systems
The first sophisticated long-distance canal systems were constructed in the Assyrian empire in the 9th century B.C.E. and incorporated tunnels several kilometres in length.
Early humans
Jainism emerges in the Indian sub-continent
Jainsm has a set of five vows: nonviolence, truth-speaking, non-stealing, no sexual immorality and non-attachment to worldly things.
Timoto-Cuica culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela
Pre-Columbian Venezuela had an estimated population of one million. The Timoto-Cuica culture was the most complex society in Pre-Columbian Venezuela; with pre-planned permanent villages, surrounded by irrigated, terraced fields and with tanks for water storage.
Humans in South American begin smoking tobacco for ceremonial and medicinal purposes
Jordan Goodman, in his book Tobacco in History, theorizes that tobacco was first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Americas, around the regions that have become known as Mexico and Brazil.
The Sami People emerge in modern-day Norway
About 1000 B.C.E., speakers of Uralic language arrived in the north and assimilated with the indigenous population, becoming the Sami people.
Chinese bronze inscriptions come into use in modern-day China
The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts.
Humans in ancient Chinese invent the sheng, an early polyphonic reed instrument
The sheng is a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes. It is a polyphonic instrument and enjoys an increasing popularity as a solo instrument. It is one of the oldest Chinese instruments
People of the Shang Dynasty begin using oracle bones for divination
Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy, a form of divination, in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.
The Rigveda, one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism, is completed
The Rigveda is one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. It is one of the oldest extant texts in any Indo-European language.
The Slab Grave culture flourishes in modern-day Mongolia
The Slab Grave culture is a archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mongols from 1,300 to 300 B.C.E.