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Media in category "Maps showing 2nd-millennium BC history" The following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total. Bronze age & iron age East Africa Horn of Africa, 2nd & 3rd millennium Mid East.png 693 × 715; 393 KB
Hammurabi and many other rulers of the early second millennium B.C. identified themselves as “Amorite” (Akkadian: amurru, Sumerian: mar.tu) kings. Amorite peoples of this period were well integrated into urban society, yet southern Mesopotamian records often portray them as living outside cities in tribal groups.
Located to the west of Kültepe, this site is the probable location of the city of Ulama, which hosted an Assyrian outpost. Like cylinder seals of this period, most stamp seals were made from dark stones like steatite and hematite ( 93.17.111 ).
Millennia: 1st millennium · 2nd millennium · 3rd millennium. Centuries: 11th century · 12th century · 13th century · 14th century · 15th century · 16th century · 17th century · 18th century · 19th century · 20th century. The 2nd millennium began on January 1, 1001 and ended on December 31, 2000 .
Jan 1, 1001 - Dec 31, 2000. The second millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It encompassed the High and Late Middle Ages of the Old World, the Islamic Golden Age and the period of Renaissance, followed by the Early Modern period, characterized by the Wars of Religion in Europe, the Age of ...
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We know little about this and other southern Mesopotamian dynasties of the late second millennium B.C., as events across the ancient Near East ushered in an age of political turmoil, where again the textual record falls silent. Art and Culture
