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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 2nd millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It began on 1 January 1001 and ended on 31 December 2000 , (11th to 20th centuries; in astronomy: JD 2 086 667.5 – 2 451 909.5).
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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
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 .
Nov 6, 2020 · Therefore, the year 1 CE or AD 1 is numbered +1, the year 1 BCE/CE has a zero number (0); consequently, 2 BCE/BC is numbered -1, the year 3 BCE/BC is numbered -2, and so on and so forth.
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. This technology rapidly spread across most of Afroeurasia.
Timeline. c. 7000 BCE - c. 600 BCE. The Indus Valley (or Harappan) Civilization . 6000 BCE - 1750 BCE. Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. 2000 BCE - 1450 BCE. Minoan civilization in Crete and the Aegean . 1900 BCE - 1100 BCE. Mycenaean civilization in Greece and the Aegean .
