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The first millennium BC is the formative period of the classical world religions, with the development of early Judaism and Zoroastrianism in the Near East, and Vedic religion and Vedanta, Jainism and Buddhism in India.
The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 13,000 BC to AD 3000. Century. Decades. 13th millennium BC · 13,000–12,001 BC. 12th millennium BC · 12,000–11,001 BC.
The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC. It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.
The 9th millennium BC spanned the years 9000 BC to 8001 BC (11 to 10 thousand years ago). In chronological terms, it is the first full millennium of the current Holocene epoch that is generally reckoned to have begun by 9700 BC (11.7 thousand years ago).
The first millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1 to 1000 ( 1st to 10th centuries; in astronomy: JD 1 721 425.5 – 2 086 667.5 [1] ). The world population rose more slowly than during the preceding millennium, from about 200 million in the year 1 to about 300 million in the year 1000.
This page indexes the individual years pages.
c. AD 985-1014: Norsemen led by Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, set up outposts in North America like L'Anse aux Meadows with encounters with the Inuit, Beothuk, and Mi'kmaqs.
