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28th century. 29th century. 30th century. In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 (MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 (MMM), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.
- 4th Millennium
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- List of Time Capsules
This is a list of time capsules.The register of The...
- List of Future Astronomical Events
The largest total solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium, with...
- Timelines of The Future
3rd millennium, up to the year 3000; Timeline of the far...
- 4th Millennium
224. ISBN. 978-0283992117. The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000–3000 is a 1985 book by the science fiction writers Brian Stableford and David Langford. It is a fictional historical account, from the perspective of the year 3000, giving a future history of humanity and its technological and sociological developments.
List of decades, centuries, and millennia. 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 ...
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- Ancient Near East
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Before the Bronze Age, humans started to form the early steps to civilization. Most people lived in small tribes composed of multiple bands or lineages. Humans slowly started to abandon their nomadic lifestyles, and started creating permanent settlements. Most importantly, they started to develop crop farming and cultivation. The previous reliance ...
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northeastern Syria and Kuwait), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Parthia and Persia), Anatolia/Asia Minor (modern Turkey and Armenia), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Isra...
In the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, north or northwest of the bottleneck at Baghdad, in modern Iraq; it is Al-Jazīrah (“The Island”) of the Arabs. South of this lies Babylonia, named after the city of Babylon. However, in the broader sense, the name Mesopotamia has come to be used for the area bound...
No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians. And yet, it is only comparatively recently that we have built up a knowledge of the existence of this ancient culture. Sumer was a civilization in southern Mesopotamia that was most likely permanently settled between 5500 and 4000 BCE by non-Semitic people who could have s...
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. It is one of six civilizations globally to arise independently. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unific...
Jan 1, 2001 · Brian M. Stableford, David Langford. 4.11. 61 ratings8 reviews. Two scientists forecast, on the basis of present scientific knowledge as well as an understanding of historical, social, and political trends, the "history" of the next millenium, written as if looking back from the year 3000 These English scientists and science fiction writers use ...
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Author Brian M. Stableford was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, U. K. on July 25, 1948. He received an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1979.
Jan 1, 1985 · "The Third Millenium" theorizes that more 3rd world-like countries will have nuclear weapons. Countries like Brazil, Argentina and Iraq or all places will have nuclear weapons. Its interesting, since when the book was published, Iraq was friendly toward the United States. In no way could the authors predict the current world situation.
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