2nd millennium BC

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

Events:

• Second dynasty of Babylon
• First Bantu migrations from west Africa
• The Cushites drive the original inhabitants from Ethiopia, and establish trade relations with Egypt.
• 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)
• Moses, Israelite Leader of the Exodus

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 da:2. årtusinde f.Kr. de:2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. es:II milenio adC fr:IIe millénaire av. J.-C. it:II millennio AC la:Secundum millenium a.Chr.n. ja:紀元前2千年紀 lb:2. Joerdausend v. Chr. ur:1000مقم