Year 1750 bce

Archaeology

The Harappan civilization along the Indus River mysteriously comes to a close. See also 2300 bce Construction.

The Shang dynasty in China begins on the floodplain of the Huang He (Yellow River), which is utilized for an irrigation system. See also 1850 bce Food & agriculture; 1000 bce Archaeology.

The famous Code of Hammurabi, the first known set of laws, is written.

In the Rimac Valley of Peru, near a temple and settlement now known as La Florida, villagers construct a canal that is between 4 km (2.5 mi) and 10 km (4 mi) long. It quadruples the amount of arable land in the region. See also 2400 bce Food & agriculture.

The Moscow papyrus, dating from the Twelfth Dynasty, shows that the Egyptians possess an extensive knowledge of geometry, the most sophisticated being a formula for the volume of a truncated pyramid. The Moscow and Rhind papyri are the two main sources of knowledge of Egyptian mathematics. See also 1650 bce Mathematics.