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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 ...
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.
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The better-known history of farmers, cities, empires, and nation-states spread around the world—although it spans five of the seven eras of this course—is just the final 2% of this long human story. It is a 2% that takes us from foragers to the Internet, and it was all made possible by the humans who lived in Era 2, the first 98% of human ...
Humans and Other Humans. The doubling of world numbers in Big Era Four, coupled with increasing density of farming populations, meant that in many places humans had no other choice but to experiment with new ways of organizing their social, economic, and cultural relations. For one thing, many more humans lived in cities at the end of this era ...
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The 2nd millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It began on 1 January 1001 ( MI) and ended on 31 December 2000 ( MM ), ( 11th to 20th centuries; in astronomy: JD 2 086 667.5 – 2 451 909.5 [1] ). It encompassed the High and Late Middle Ages of the Old World, the Islamic Golden Age and the ...
Bronze technology appeared in the first millennium bce, but it was the introduction of iron tools and weapons in the second century bce that dramatically increased agricultural productivity. At about the same time, as with Vietnam, the Chinese had come to regard the Korean Peninsula as part of their domain, and for almost 400 years much of ...
