Family information unknown

General

Population: Perhaps 50 million*

• Religion: Time of the patriarchs (1730 BC)
• Warfare: Horses used in war (1700 BC)

Africa

• Egypt: Hyksos rule Egypt founding 15th Dynasty - control northern Egypt - probably Aryan-Semites from southern Russia (1730 BC)
  Drought and famine in Egypt / middle east (Joseph?) (1708 BC)
  End of Egypt's Middle Kingdom (1700 BC)
  End of the rule of Hyksos in Egypt - also 1550/75 (1700 BC)
  End of drought in Egypt (1700 BC)

Asia

• China: Shang dynasty begins in China as Hsia (Xia) dynasty ends (1700 BC)
• India: Fall of Indus valley civilization (1700 BC)

Europe

• Crete: Knossos rebuilt as main palace on Crete - Minoan Linear A script develops (1700 BC)
  Minoan palaces rebuilt - start of Minoan Golden Age (1700 BC)

Middle East

• General: Accession of Hammurabi the Great
• Mesopotamia: Amorites conquer Mesopotamia (1700 BC)