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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.
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF PASTORAL PEOPLES, 4000-1000 BCE. 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
Mar 19, 2022 · The end of the second millennium BCE saw power over Babylon change hands several times, with Babylonia briefly falling under Assyrian domination. By the seventh century, BCE Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar II (c. 604–562 BCE) came to rule most of its former empire.
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Perhaps the single most important invention of the era was the technology of iron production. Beginning late in the second millennium BCE, people in both Southwest Asia and East Africa, independently of each other, acquired the knowledge of how to smelt iron and work it into useful objects.
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 ...
- Craig Benjamin
- 2015
The earliest astronomical or astrological texts preserved from Babylonia and Assyria date to the early 2nd millennium bce, although some basic astronomical knowledge such as the identification of a regular cycle of the moon, the identification of the planets as a distinct type of celestial object from the stars, and the grouping of stars into ...
Empires and Trade in the 2nd Millennium BC Summary This map shows the boundaries of empires from 2000-1000 BCE, primarily around 1400 BC in southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East.
