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In the second millennium BCE migrations of pastoral folk emanating from the steppes of Central Asia contributed to a quickening pace of change across the entire region from Europe and the Mediterranean basin to India.
Can it, for example, explain the complex culture that arose in the lower Mississippi valley during the second millennium BCE, a culture best known by the massive earthworks at Poverty Point in northeast Louisiana? Analysis of the artifacts and archaeological data of the Poverty Point culture provides an affirmative answer to this question.
Mar 24, 2013 · The concept of the axial age, initially proposed by the philosopher Karl Jaspers to refer to a period in the first millennium BCE that saw the rise of majo.
- John D. Boy, John Torpey
- 2013
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.
In this introductory chapter we unfold the events of that period as though they took place in a single day, from “sunrise” in the Year 1200 bce to “sunset” more than two millennia later in the Year 900 of the Common Era (ce).
- Craig Benjamin
- 2015
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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In 1948, German–Swiss philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote that between 800 and 200 bc, the five aforementioned societies independently embraced moral universalism, or the idea that people are morally...
