Now we have accounts of a dynasty before it, the Xia, or the Qia Dynasty, although we do not have significant archaeological evidence of it. But the accounts say that the Xia Dynasty would have been around for roughly 500 years before we get to this 16th century BCE with the emergence of the Shang Dynasty. Now just to get ourselves acquainted in time and space, to think about, well, what else was happening around 1600 BCE, we could remind ourselves that that was during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, right around here. The height of ancient Egypt's power was right around that time. We could think about the Hittite Empire that we study in other videos. We could think about Mycenaean Greece. Around 1600 BCE is when you start having, or when you have the decline of the Indus Valley civilization, also known as the Harappan civilization.