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Prehistoric cultures. Events. Inventions, discoveries, introductions. Languages. Centuries and Decades. References. See also. 2nd millennium BC. 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 .
2nd millennium BC. The 2nd millennium BC took place in between the years of 2000 BC and 1001 BC. This is the time between the Middle and the late Bronze Age. The first half of the millennium saw a lot of activity by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
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Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. brings into focus the cultural enrichment shared by civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean more than three thousand years ago during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages. With the formation of powerful kingdoms and large territorial states, rising social elites created a demand for precious metals and ...
The earliest astronomical or astrological texts preserved from Babylonia and Assyria date to the early 2nd millennium bce, although some basic astronomical knowledge such as the identification of a regular cycle of the moon, the identification of the planets as a distinct type of celestial object from the stars, and the grouping of stars into ...
It is generally agreed that during the 3rd millennium BC (Chalcolithic) and the 2nd millennium BC (Bronze Age) complex transformations of the social dynamics within the diverse communities inhabiting the different regions of Europe occurred.
The 2nd millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It began on 1 January 1001 ( MI ) and ended on 31 December 2000 ( MM ), ( 11th to 20th centuries; in astronomy: JD 2 086 667 .5 – 2 451 909 .5 [1] ).
Between 3000 and 1000 BCE, it took about 1,600 years for world populations to double. Between 1000 BCE and 1 CE the doubling time was less than 1,000 years. One cause of human biological success in the first millennium BCE may have been that in regions where people regularly interacted with one another, they slowly built up shared immunities to ...
