During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

The Renaissance (,,,, Original, from rinascere " to be reborn ") was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.

Late in the 14th century the name Sumatra became popular in reference to the kingdom of Samudra Pasai, which was a rising power until it was replaced by Sultanate of Aceh.

It was a year in the 14th century, in the midst of a period known in European history as the Late Middle Ages.

With the inclusion of the predecessor and successor cultures — Early Harappan and Late Harappan, respectively — the entire Indus Valley Civilization may be taken to have lasted from the 33rd to the 14th centuries BCE.

The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age ( 14th century BCE ).

A small port city known today as Tell Abu Hawam was established Late Bronze Age ( 14th century BCE ).

First attested in English in late 14th century, the word scar derives from Old French escharre, from Late Latin eschara, which is the latinisation of the Greek ἐσχάρα ( eskhara ), meaning " hearth, fireplace ", but in medicine " scab, eschar on a wound caused by burning or otherwise ".

There seems to be some continuity of Early Medieval Welsh tradition into the Late Middle Ages, with 14th century poets such as Dafydd ap Gwilym and Iolo Goch, and even to the present day with the Gorsedd of Bards.

Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between the extinguishing of the " light of Rome " after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.

This is sometimes called the crisis of the Late Middle Ages and Barbara Tuchman regards the 14th century as " a distant mirror " of the 20th century in a way that echoes Bergman's sensibilities.

Late Gothic Sibyls, each with her emblem and a single line of prophecy, lettered on a fluttering banderole, were fixtures of Late Gothic illuminations, in 14th and 15th-century France and Germany.

Late in the 14th century, the guilds were charged by the city to commission statues of their patron saints to embellish the facades of the church.

Late 13th and 14th century sources suggest that Boniface based his claim to Thessalonica on the statement that his younger brother Renier had been granted Thessalonica on his marriage to Maria Komnene in 1180.

File: Vierge à l ' enfant. jpg | French Late Gothic Virgin and Child, 14th century, from Cernay-lès-Reims.

Late 13th and 14th century sources suggest that Boniface based his claim to Thessalonica on the statement that his younger brother Renier had been granted Thessalonica on his marriage to Maria Komnene in 1180.

* Italian Renaissance — Late 14th century to Early 16th century

File: Ivory tabernacle Louvre OA2587. jpg | Late 14th century French Gothic triptych, probably for a lay owner, with scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Mozarabic descends from Late Latin and early Romance dialects spoken in the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries, and was spoken until the 14th century.

This archeological period is called Late and is divided into Late Period I ( 6th to 13th centuries ) and Late Period II ( 14th to 16th Centuries ).

Shortly thereafter, he travelled to New York to perform on CBS ' Late Show with David Letterman on March 13 and NBC's Today Show on the 14th, again with full band and strings.

Late 15th century BCE, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Middle English describes dialects of English in the history of the English language between the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century.

Late Middle English and the transition to Early Modern English takes place from the early 15th century and is taken to have been complete by the beginning of the Tudor period in 1485.

The Colchian Late Bronze Age ( 15th to 8th century BC ) saw the development of significant skill in the smelting and casting of metals that began long before this skill was mastered in Europe.

Hasle Church itself, built in the 15th century in a Late Gothic style, has a carved, early 16th century triptych.

* Saint Ulrich Church, Late Gothic church of the Servite Order ( 15th century ), today used as concert hall

Late 14th-early 15th century icon illustrating the " Feast of Orthodoxy | Triumph of Orthodoxy " under the Byzantine empress Theodora ( wife of Theophilos ) | Theodora over iconoclasm.

* Late 15th century In the late 15th century, a dove with an olive branch was used on the seal of Dieci di Balia, the Florentine committee known as The Ten of Liberty and Peace, whose secretary was Machiavelli ; it bore the motto, " Pax et Defencio Libertatis " ( Peace and the Defence of Liberty ).

Late in the 15th century both aisles were rebuilt and the Perpendicular Gothic nave clerestory and south porch were added.

The history of the Old World ( Europe in particular, but also the Near East and North Africa ) is commonly divided into Antiquity, up to 476 CE ; the Middle Ages, from the 5th through the 15th centuries, including the Islamic Golden Age ( c. 750 CE – c. 1258 CE ) and the early European Renaissance ; the Early Modern period, from the 15th century to the late 18th, including the Age of Enlightenment ; and the Late Modern period, from the Industrial Revolution to the present, including Contemporary History.

* Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū — Traces back to the Hayashizaki-ryū Iai of Hayashizaki Jinsuke ( Late 15th century )

* Musō Shinden-ryū — Traces back to the Hayashizaki-ryū Iai of Hayashizaki Jinsuke ( Late 15th century )

Late 15th century tapestry from Basel, showing a woodwose being tamed by a virtuous lady

This led to Fabriano's prosperity in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and was also one of the factors that led to the establishment of nearby Foligno in Umbria as one of the earliest printing centers in Italy in the 15th century, from 1470 onwards.

Late in 2010, Cave announced in an interview with Spinner that the Bad Seeds are presently planning a 15th record.

Approximately 83 episodes are held in the Late Show archives in New York ; a brief clip from the finale was shown on Letterman's 15th anniversary show in 1997.

Late 15th centuries masters include Johannes Lecküchner, Hans von Speyer, Peter Falkner, and Hans Folz.

# The Late Middle Ages — Generally describes the period of the 14th and 15th centuries ( c. 1300 – 1500 ) leading up to the Early Modern period or era ; see also Early Modern Europe.

Image: Qur ' anic Manuscript-Mid to Late 15th Century, Turkey. jpg | Qur ' anic Manuscript-Mid to Late 15th Century, Turkey

) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B. C.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

Late 18th century French revolutionary " decimal " clockface.

Late in the 20th century, caller ID and prepaid cellphone service became commonplace.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

Late in the nineteenth century astronomers such as Richard Proctor and Charles Piazzi Smyth investigated the astronomical orientations of the pyramids.

The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

Late 19th century and the 20th century were marked by large scale economic migrations abroad.

Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Late in the century the name came to be applied to a class of software for converting among digital signal formats, and including compander functions.

This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.

Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

* Late 10th century: Pomerelia was united with Poland.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.

In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.