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  2. Millennium - Wikipedia

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    Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous decades, centuries, and millennia, but not so much for decades. The issue arises from the difference between the convention of using ordinal numbers to count years and millennia, as in "the third millennium", or using a vernacular description, as in "the two thousands". The ...

  3. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    12th millennium BC · 12,000–11,001 BC 11th millennium BC · 11,000–10,001 BC 10th millennium BC · 10,000–9001 BC 9th millennium BC · 9000–8001 BC 8th millennium BC · 8000–7001 BC 7th millennium BC · 7000–6001 BC 6th millennium BC · 6000–5001 BC 5th millennium BC · 5000–4001 BC 4th millennium BC · 4000–3001 BC 40th ...

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    millennium: 1000 yr: Also called "kiloannum". Age: 2 148 and 2/3 of a year: A superstitious unit of time used in astrology, each of them representing a star sign. terasecond: 10 12 s: About 31,709 years. megaannum: 10 6 yr: Also called "megayear". 1000 millennia (plural of millennium), or 1 million years (in geology, abbreviated as Ma ...

  5. 1st millennium - Wikipedia

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    The first millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1 to 1000 (1st to 10th centuries; in astronomy: JD 1 721 425.5 – 2 086 667.5 [1]). The world population rose more slowly than during the preceding millennium , from about 200 million in the year 1 to about 300 million in the year 1000.

  6. Strange 5,000-year-old clay bowls linked to rise and fall of ...

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    Bowls likely used to provide communal meals millennia ago. ... Dozens of strange clay bowls unearthed at an archeological site dating to the 4th millennium BC in Kurdistan have offered clues to ...

  7. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    millennia to geological epochs (1 Ts = over 31,600 years = 1,000,000,000,000 s) 3.1 Ts (100 ka): approximate length of a glacial period of the current Quaternary glaciation epoch 31.6 Ts (1000 ka, 1 Ma): One mega-annum (Ma), or one million years 79 Ts (2.5 Ma): The approximate time since earliest hominids of genus Australopithecus

  8. Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it ...

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    NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan.

  9. 1st millennium BC - Wikipedia

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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 [1]). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.