Assyria

1000 BC- The world population is estimated at 50 million people. Commercial splendor of the Phoenician ports: Tyr, Byblos and Sidon. In Syria, the Phoenicians invented their alphabet. By now the Aramaic are firmly established in a large number of cities and fortresses in Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Syria. Italy's Villanovian civilization flourishes in numerous cities, the apogee of Alba Longa. Spread of iron metallurgy among the peoples of Central and Western Europe. Spain: the great treasure of Villena, with objects of gold, iron, amber and silver adding almost ten kilos of metals. Great Britain: the white horse of Huffington, Lacustrine art on a hill. Austria, Lake Hallstatt: salt mining and miners' cemetery. It is very possible that some Indo-European language groups will move from the steppes of the northern Black Sea and Caspian (where the technique of horse riding is being developed) and settle in the Tarim basin, on the border with the Taklamakan desert, in Turkestan and even further east, in Xinjiang, in western China, as witnessed by the remains of individuals of Caucasian ethnicity (with features reminiscent of the current Uyghur of the territory) and the written texts found, of an unknown but undoubtedly Indo-European language. China is also the place where the kite is invented, probably as a military signal. Japan: the last phase of the Jomon period begins. India: the iron age begins; the kingdoms of Panchala, Kuru, Kosala and Videja are developed. In America, the Chavín organize a powerful kingdom, dominating Peru. Tomato agriculture begins in Mexico, celery and asparagus in Greece and bananas in Malaysia. Alaska: the Choris culture is born, with underground housing, oil lamps and hunting of marine animals. El Salvador: archaeological site of El Perical: ceramics and vestiges of a permanent village. Peru: the Cupisnique culture collapses. In North America, while the Arctic Eskimos settled down in sometimes extensive settlements, such as Ipintak; in the southwest the Chiricahuas begin maize agriculture, the use of the arc and the manufacture of ceramics. In the Ohio River valleys: the new Adena Culture also begins agriculture, in addition to the construction of large burial mounds. All of these innovations come from Mesoamerica, whose societies are generally much more developed. The Zapotec of San Jose Mogote, in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley, have well-established hierarchies, and the inhabitants of Tlatilco, in central Mexico, make hollow figures, fire snakes, and Olmec-influenced ceramic jaguar-men. As for the Olmecs themselves, they build a large ceremonial center in Tabasco...