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The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age . The Ancient Near Eastern cultures are well within the historical era: The first half of the millennium is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
This is the first stage of a process which, between 1800 and 1200 BC (Middle Bronze Age), marks the emergence and consolidation of proto-state regional powers. Soares’s narrative is based upon a tight periodisation, centred on a social and economic evolutionary process, influenced by Marxist and anthropological theory.
It introduces archaeological and paleographic evidence from the Early to Middle Bronze Age, beginning with graphs and material remains from the Early Bronze Age Erlitou culture (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), following with Early and Middle Shang graphs and ending with the mature writing on bronze, bone, and jade of the Late Shang.
Mar 13, 2021 · The Art of Western Europe. The Atlantic Bronze Age is the period of approximately 1300 to 700 BCE that includes different cultures in Portugal, Andalusia, Galicia, and the British Isles. It is marked by economic and cultural exchange. Commercial contacts extended to Denmark and the Mediterranean.
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A number of Old Assyrian limmu lists have been combined into the so-called Revised Eponym List (REL), which spans a period of 255 years in the early second millennium BCE (1972-1718 BCE in the Middle Chronology dating system). [3] The central figure of this period was Šamšī-Adad I who conquered Aššur in the year REL 165, and reigned ...
Apr 6, 2017 · Zebu appear intermittently in the iconographic records of second millennium BCE Egypt and the southern Levant (ref. 15 and references therein) and are reported in contemporary archaeozoological ...
Standard 1 : The major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley. Standard 2 : How agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third and second millennia BCE. Standard 3 : The political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in ...
