2nd millennium BC Chr.

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The 2nd millennium BC Chr. Describes the period from 2000 BC. Until 1000 BC Chr.

Global territorial situation 2000 BC Chr.

Events

Ancient Orient in the 13th century BC Chr.

• Early 2nd millennium BC Chr .: Hittite principalities in Central Anatolia.
• 18th century BC Chr . : Babylon becomes a regional power center.
• Middle Kingdom (2052–1570 BC) and New Kingdom (1550 BC to 1070 BC) in Egypt .
• According to the Bible imprisonment of the Jews in Egypt (historicity disputed).
• Egyptian rule over Palestine and Syria (1600-1360 BC)
• 17th century BC BC : Extinction of the world's last mammoths on Wrangel Island in East Siberia .
• 16th century BC BC : Beginning of the Mycenaean culture .
• 15th century BC BC : Fall of the Minoan culture.
• 14th century BC BC : The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten raised Aton to be the only god and thus laid the foundation for today's monotheism .
• 13th century BC BC : The Indus culture arrives in the period from 1900 BC. BC to 1300 BC In the late phase of the Harappan culture (Late Bronze Age)
• 12th century BC BC : according to the Bible, Canaan was conquered by the Jews (historicity disputed).

Important persons

Expedition to Punt in the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

• 18th century BC BC : Hammurapi , king of Babylon.
• 18th century BC BC : Samši-Adad I , King of the Old Assyrian Empire , conqueror and founder of an empire.
• 15th century BC BC : Hatshepsut , Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty .
• 14th century BC BC : Akhenaten , Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

The death mask of Tutankhamun in the Cairo Egyptian Museum

• 14th century BC BC: Tutankhamun , Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.
• 14th century BC Chr .: Eriba-Adad I , king of the Central Assyrian Empire , frees the empire from its dependence on Mittani .
• 13th century BC BC : Ramses II , Egyptian pharaoh of the 19th dynasty .
• 13th century BC BC: Shalmaneser I , king of the Central Assyrian Empire .
• Saul , King of the Jews
• Moses , Tanach (historicity disputed)

Inventions and discoveries

• India is developing the caste system .
• The Chinese have a comet .
• Domestication of the camel , followed by the start of the caravan trade .
• 17th century BC Chr .: First syllabary writings ( 1630 BC )
• 14th century BC BC : First written documents in Greek .

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