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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.
The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. Century. Decades. 15th millennium BC · 15,000–14,001 BC. 14th millennium BC · 14,000–13,001 BC. 13th millennium BC · 13,000–12,001 BC. 12th millennium BC · 12,000–11,001 BC. 11th millennium BC · 11,000 ...
Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. brings into focus the cultural enrichment shared by civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean more than three thousand years ago during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages.
The 2nd millennium BC took place in between the years of 2000 BC and 1001 BC. This is the time between the Middle and the late Bronze Age. The first half of the millennium saw a lot of activity by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops.
Amorite, member of an ancient Semitic-speaking people who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000 to about 1600 bc. In the oldest cuneiform sources (c. 2400–c. 2000 bc), the Amorites were equated with the West, though their true place of origin was most likely.
During the latter half of the second millennium B.C., the Late Bronze Age sees Egyptian hegemony in Canaan to the south. Further north, the powerful Mitanni empire dominates Syria until the Hittites expand into the region from Anatolia.
Canaan in the Second Millennium BC. The beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in Canaan is marked by the establishment of palatial and fortified centers, monumental architecture, and international trade.
Nov 18, 2008 · Beginning around four thousand years ago in the lands of western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean, one of the first international ages in human history emerged. Intense exchange fostered a burst of creativity in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant, and the Aegean in the second millennium B.C.—the time of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages.
The creators of the Mycenaean culture were the Achaean Greeks, who invaded the Balkan Peninsula at the turn of the III-II millennium BC, apparently from the north, from the area of the Danube lowland, where they originally lived.
Aug 6, 2012 · What happened in Britain in the late Second Millennium? In the Independent for 16.8.88, David Keys suggested that ‘Most of northern Britain appears to have been rendered uninhabitable by a catastrophe resembling the “nuclear winter” that some scientists believe would follow a nuclear war’.
