pageType:year friendlyName:1103 BC onDate:in 1103 BCThe map hardly moves this year: a pixel or two at the edge of the Shang, nothing more. The year matters for who dies. Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, the king who beat Elam and brought Marduk home, dies after 21 years, and Babylon's blue-green stays the size he left it. Tiglath-Pileser I is in his tenth year and at the height of his power, campaigning in the north and west and stocking his parks at Assur with the animals of the lands he crosses. Egypt's Ramesses XI is a weak king in a country where the high priests of Amun and the generals hold the real power, and the Nubian viceroy is about to march on Thebes. The Phrygians, Philistines, Olmecs, Shang and Indo-Aryans keep their colours. In the Wei valley the Zhou lords gather strength against the Shang.
From 1114 BC to 1104 BC
On the map nothing of size changes this year; the colours stand where they were, with the Shang edge shifting by a pixel. The snapshot marks the death of Nebuchadnezzar I, and Babylonia keeps the shape he gave it.
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