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==Events and trends==
* [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]—Start of the [[Second Intermediate Period|Sixteenth Dynasty]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ryholt |first=Kim |title=The political situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 B.C. |date=1997 |publisher=Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen |others=Adam Bülow-Jacobsen |isbn=87-7289-421-0 |location=Copenhagen |pages=305 |oclc=38020107}}</ref>
* [[Egypt]]—Development of leavened [[bread]] (date approximate).