1700s BC (decade)

The 1700s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1709 BC to December 31, 1700 BC.

Events and trends

• c. 1700 BC – The last woolly mammoth goes extinct on Wrangel Island.
• c. 1700 BC – The city of Knossos on Crete is destroyed by fire.
• c. 1700 BC – Aegean metalworkers begin producing crafts that rival those of the ancient Near East, whose techniques they seem to borrow.
• c. 1700 BC – The Indus Valley civilization comes to an end and the Cemetery H culture begins.
• c. 1700 BC – Lila-Ir-Tash starts ruling the Elamite Empire.
• c. 1700 BC – Bronze Age starts in China.
• c. 1700 BC – The Oxus civilization ends in today's Central Asia.
• c. 1700 BC – Meteor explosion produces Middle Ghor Event: Catastrophic Termination of a Bronze Age Civilization

Significant people

• Jie of Xia, last ruler of the Xia Dynasty, begins ruling around 1706 BC
• Lila-Ir-Tash, king of the Elamite Empire
• Rim-Sin I, king of the city-state of Larsa
• Hammurabi, king of Babylon (according to the short chronology)

References

1. List of decades, centuries, and millennia
2. 1680s BC
3. 18th century BC
4. 1710s BC
5. 1690s BC
6. 1720s BC
7. 2nd millennium BC
8. Table of years in music
9. Victoria, British Columbia
10. Battle of Thermopylae
11. Timeline of art
12. History of agriculture
13. Nocera dei Pagani
14. List of state leaders in the 18th century BC
15. History of sign language
16. List of tsunamis
17. Calabria
18. Western world
19. Iran
20. Stockholm