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The political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in Eurasia in the second millennium BCE. Standard 3A. The student understands how population movements from western and Central Asia affected peoples of India, Southwest Asia, and the Mediterranean region.
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. This book intends to revisit such consensus by highlighting how researchers
The term axial age (Achsenzeit; sometimes translated “axial period,”“axis-time,” or “pivotal age”) refers to an epoch in human history that Jaspers and others regard as a decisive period in human cognition. This period, which Jaspers held to have run roughly from 800 to 200 BCE, saw the rise of Confucius and Lao-tse in China, the
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.
beginning of the 2nd millennium—the Middle Minoan period. Renfrew identified a number of dramatic changes in the five cultural subsystems during the third millennium BCE. (1) The subsistence subsystem was affected by the development of a diverse agricultural economy. In this period, farmers cultivated wheat,
This chapter concentrates on the archaeological and paleographic evidence of the Early and Middle Bronze Age, the time when prehistoric communities transitioned towards an organized state and began making a more systematic use of graphic recording.
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Beginning late in the second millennium BCE, people in both Southwest Asia and East Africa, independently of each other, acquired the knowledge of how to smelt iron and work it into useful objects. This technology rapidly spread across most of Afroeurasia.
