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4 giorni fa · The Indo-European eastward expansion in the 2nd millennium BCE left an influence on Chinese culture, introducing wheeled vehicles and the domesticated horse. Although much less certain, it may also have introduced iron technology, fighting styles, head-and-hoof rituals, art motifs and myths.
4 giorni fa · The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age ( second millennium BC ), bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its purpose and its original place of manufacture remain disputed.
3 giorni fa · 6th century - 2nd century BC: Systematization of medicine and surgery in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic Northern India. Documented procedures to: Perform cataract surgery . Babylonian and Egyptian texts, a millennium before, depict and mention oculists, but not the procedure itself. Perform Caesarean section.
5 apr 2024 · Indus civilization, the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500–1700 BCE, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium BCE. Learn more about the Indus civilization in this article.
- Frank Raymond Allchin
- What is the Indus civilization?The Indus civilization was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent—one of the world’s three earliest civilizations, along with...
- Where did the Indus civilization begin?The Indus civilization began in the Indus River valley, evolving from villages that used the Mesopotamian model of irrigated agriculture.
- Where was the Harappan civilization located?The Harappan civilization was located in the Indus River valley. Its two large cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, were located in present-day Pakist...
- How did the Indus civilization end?It remains unclear how the Indus civilization came to an end, and its decline was probably not uniform. By the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE, th...
- When did the Indus civilization develop?The Indus civilization developed in the 3rd millennium BCE, making it one of the earliest of the world’s civilizations, and it lasted into the 2nd...
26 mar 2024 · A Veda is a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium BCE. The hymns formed a liturgical body that in part grew up around the soma ritual and sacrifice and were recited or chanted during rituals.
28 mar 2024 · By the 2nd millennium bce they had settled in the Levant, North Africa, Anatolia, and Cyprus. They traded wood, cloth, dyes, embroideries, wine, and decorative objects; ivory and wood carving became their specialties, and the work of Phoenician goldsmiths and metalsmiths was well known.
1 apr 2024 · AGATHANGELOS (Greek for “messenger of good news”), the supposed author of a History of the Armenians, which describes the conversion of King Trdat of Armenia to Christianity at the beginning of the 4th century A.D. The Armenian version (Aa) of this History dates from the second half of the 5th century.
