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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.
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 ...
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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. At the center of the millennium, a new order emerges with ...
2nd millennium BC. 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.
The earliest alphabetic system that we know of appeared in Southwest Asia near the end of the second millennium BCE. In the following centuries variations of that system spread from the Mediterranean basin to India. People could master alphabetic systems faster and easier than logographic ones.
Summary. This map shows the boundaries of empires from 2000-1000 BCE, primarily around 1400 BC in southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East. The map shows the Hittite Empire, the Egyptian Empire, the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, the Kassite kingdom, and the Assyrian Empire around 1400 BCE, as well as the Mycenaean civilization c. 1350 BCE.
Jul 10, 2023 · More than fifteen hundred miles east of Mesopotamia, in the fertile valley of the Indus River, another early civilization developed in the early third millennium BCE as a peer of ancient Sumer. Early in the second millennium BCE, however, the cities of this Indus valley culture experienced decline. Lacking written records, historians have only ...
