Colchian culture

Colchian culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Caucasus (Middle East) from c. 1700 to 600 BCE, a span of 1,100 years. Its people spoke Kartvelian languages (Georgian).

Bronze and Iron Age culture of western Georgia, known for bronze axes, hoes and ornaments. Its people are generally seen as ancestors of the Kartvelian-speaking Colchians.

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Facts

Dates

c. 1700 to 600 BCE

Duration

1,100 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Caucasus, Middle East

Language family

Kartvelian

Became

• Colchis c. 600 to 101 BCE

Events in Middle East during its time

• 1595 BCE Hittites sack Babylon
• 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh
• 1177 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse
• 1050 BCE Phoenician alphabet
• 853 BCE Battle of Qarqar
• 722 BCE Assyria conquers Samaria
• 612 BCE Fall of Nineveh

Neighbours in Middle East

• Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE
• Old Babylonian Empire 1894 to 1595 BCE
• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE
• Ebla c. 3000 to 1600 BCE
• Kingdom of Saba c. 1000 BCE to 275 CE
• Old Elamite period c. 2700 to 1500 BCE
• Greek cities of Asia Minor c. 1050 to 129 BCE
• Phoenician city-states c. 1200 to 332 BCE
• Middle Assyrian Empire 1365 to 912 BCE
• Kassite Babylonia c. 1595 to 1155 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa
• Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE, Europe

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