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The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD 1 356 182.5 – 1 721 425.5). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity .
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 4th millennium BC' spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC. Some of the major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the Bronze Age and the invention of writing , which played a major role in starting recorded history .
This article provides an overview of the first millennium BCE, drawing on a wide range of sources to put into perspective the sweeping changes of the Iron Age, with invasions by peoples of the steppe, creation and destruction of a native Anatolian empire, the arrival and settling of the Greeks on the Aegean coast, and the first large-scale and l...
9 dic 2019 · 09 December 2019. When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age. Humanity’s supposed singular transition to modernity in the first millennium bc was much...
- Laura Spinney
- 2019
About the authors. Praise. Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. brings into focus the cultural enrichment shared by civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean more than three thousand years ago during the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages.
Introduction. (pp. 3-6) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrn1t.3. At the beginning of the first millennium BC , the Near East was emerging from two centuries of crisis, marked by vast movements of populations and the disappearance or dormancy of the majority of the great political powers.
