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Judaism - Torah, Monotheism, Covenant: The Bible depicts the family of the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (all early 2nd millennium bce)—as having its chief seat in the northern Mesopotamian town of Harran, which then belonged to the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni. From there Abraham, the founder of the Hebrew people, is said to have migrated to Canaan (comprising roughly the ...
1 day ago · The size of the population has been estimated as having risen from 1 to 1.5 million in the 3rd millennium bce to perhaps twice that number in the late 2nd millennium and 1st millennium bce. (Much higher levels of population were reached in Greco-Roman times.) Nearly all of the people were engaged in agriculture and were probably tied to the land.
May 20, 2024 · Hinduism is a major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. If the Indus valley civilization (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of Hindu traditions, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.
The mid-2nd millennium BCE in Cyprus, particularly the MCIII-LCIIB (1750/1700- c.1400 BCE), is viewed as a transitional period from kinship-based villages to cities of specialists. On the prehistoric side of this transition, the agrarian economy that defined the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE has been studied systematically.
Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes: Concepts of the Sea and Marine Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium. bce. Author Mari Yamasaki. Book series: LEMA, 2. Place: publisher, year: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023. Pages: 228 p. pISBN: 978-2-503-60647-7.
Mar 31, 2016 · Canaan in the Second Millennium B.C.E. Collected Essays. Vol. 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2005. A collection of twenty-three previously published essays on 2nd millennium BCE Canaan by the noted historian Na’aman. They include specialized studies, geared toward a scholarly audience, of the Egyptians in Canaan, the Amarna Letters, the ...
The prehistoric period (3rd and 2nd millennia bce) Indigenous prehistoric religion. The prehistoric culture of the Indus valley arose in the latter centuries of the 3rd millennium bce from the metal-using village cultures of the region. There is considerable evidence of the material life of the Indus people, but its interpretation remains a ...
