3500: domestication of the horse in Central Asia. 3148: the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is made in the Globular Amphorae Culture. 2350: the Corded Ware Horizon reaches its widest extent from the Rhine to the Volga and from the Danube to the Kattegat. 2100: Sintashta culture of the Indo-Iranians produces the earliest known chariots. 2000: proto-Greeks begin to move into the Greek mainland. 2000: Hittite culture appears in Anatolia, replacing the former non-Indo-European ‘Hattic’ culture. 1900: fall of the Harappan civilization and the first of several waves of Aryan settlement. 1800: Italic tribes cross the eastern Alpine passes and move into the lower Po Valley. 1300: Cimmerians by the Sea of Azov. 1200: the beginnings of the rise of Phrygia. 0721: Cimmerians are present in Urartu around Mount Ararat. 0590: Urartu is replaced by the Indo-European satrapy of Harminuya which the Greeks call Armenia.
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