2nd millennium BC

(3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – other millennia)

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Events:

• Second dynasty of Babylon
• First Bantu migrations from west Africa
• Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia (1900 BC)
• Civilization in Palestine (1800 BC)
• Middle Kingdom in Egypt (2052–1570 BC)
• Egyptian domination over Palestine and Syria (1600–1360 BC)
• Conquest of Canaan (Palestine) by the Israelites
• Mycenaean civilization (c. 1600 BC–1200 BC)
• Athens founded (1235 BC)
• Beginnings of Judaism (1200 BC)
• Olmec civilization in Mesoamerica (1150 BC)
• Fall of Troy (1184 BC)

Significant people:

• Hammurabi,Babylonian king and law maker(1792–1745 BC)
• Egyptian Pharaohs Akhenaton and Rameses II of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
• Shalmaneser I, Assyrian king (1274–1275 BC)
• Saul, Israelite King

Inventions, discoveries, introductions:

• Indians developed caste system
• Horse domesticated
• Chinese record the earliest known sighting of a comet

Centuries: 20th century BC, 19th century BC, 18th century BC, 17th century BC, 16th century BC, 15th century BC, 14th century BC, 13th century BC, 12th century BC, 11th century BC