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- Consequently, pastoral peoples began play an important role in world history. 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.
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The 20th century saw increasing globalization, most notably the two World Wars and the subsequent formation of the United Nations. 20th-century technology includes powered flight, television and semiconductor technology, including integrated circuits.
At the center of the millennium, a new order emerges with Mycenaean Greek dominance of the Aegean and the rise of the Hittite Empire. The end of the millennium sees the Bronze Age collapse and the transition to the Iron Age. Other regions of the world are still in the prehistoric period.
Dec 9, 2019 · 09 December 2019. When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age. Humanity’s supposed singular transition to modernity in the first millennium bc was much...
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Consequently, pastoral peoples began play an important role in world history. 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.
Millennium, a period of 1,000 years. The Gregorian calendar, put forth in 1582 and subsequently adopted by most countries, did not include a year 0 in the transition from bc (years before Christ) to ad (those since his birth). Thus, the 1st millennium is defined as spanning years 1–1000 and the 2nd.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2nd millennium. The 2nd millennium began on January 1, 1001 and ended on December 31, 2000. The Julian calendar was used in Europe at the beginning of the second millennium, and many countries that continued using the Julian calendar had adopted the Gregorian calendar by the end of the second millennium before it ended.
Perhaps the single most important invention of the era was the technology of iron production. 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.