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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.
Standard 1 : The major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley. Standard 2 : How agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third and second millennia BCE. Standard 3 : The political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in ...
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None of them was incompatible with types of inquiry and speculation that we associate with the beginnings of science. In the Aegean Sea region, for example, Greek-speaking scholars, whose religion in the first millennium BCE embraced a large household of deities, developed a method of scientific and moral questioning known as natural philosophy.
This is the first stage of a process which, between 1800 and 1200 BC (Middle Bronze Age), marks the emergence and consolidation of proto-state regional powers. Soares’s narrative is based upon a tight periodisation, centred on a social and economic evolutionary process, influenced by Marxist and anthropological theory.
Introduction. When the sun rose above the eastern horizon on the first day of the year world historians designate as 1200 Before the Common Era ( bce), its rays progressively illuminated the continents and oceans of earth. As the world spun on its axis, light spread westwards across the face of the globe, and night gave way to day.
- Craig Benjamin
- 2015
Eventually, by the end of the second millennium BCE (likely between 1200 and 1000 BCE), the Israelites established small kingdoms in the Levant. The Levant refers to areas adjacent to the eastern Mediterranean; in the ancient world, it comprised roughly the area from southern Anatolia through coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean south and ...
Pottery today may not seem particularly interesting or important, but in the second millennium BCE, it was a high art form and its manufacture was often closely associated with centers of power. Much like the production of porcelain for European royal houses in the 18th century, the production of pottery on Crete tells us about elite tastes ...
