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c. 2900 BC–2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue. c. 2400 BC–2000 BC: large painted jar with birds in the border made in the Indus River Valley civilization and is now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 2400 BC–There is archaeological evidence that the site of Assur was occupied at around this time.
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c. 2500 BC: The sculpture Khafre Enthroned is made. c. 2500 BC: People in Peru rely on fish and mussels for food. c. 2500 BC: Evidence of long-distance trade routes in South America. [1] c. 2500 BC: Skara Brae is abandoned after approximately 600 years of occupation. c. 2500–2250 BC: Ebla tablets are collected in the ancient city of Ebla, Syria.
c. 2300 BC, the Central European cultures of Unetice, Adlerberg, Straubing and pre-Lausitz started working bronze, a technique that reached them through the Balkans and Danube. c. 1800 BC, the culture of Los Millares, in Southwestern Spain, was substituted by that of El Argar, fully of the Bronze Age, which may well have been a centralised state.
We define the Iron Age as ending in 510 BC for the purposes of this article, even though the typical definition is region-dependent (e.g. 510 BC in Greece, 322 BC in India, 200 BC in China), thus being an 800-year period. [e] 1100 BC Star catalogue — Three Stars Each is the earliest known catalogue in long-running tradition of Babylonian ...
During the first kingdom period between about 3000 and 2300 BC, Ebla was the most prominent kingdom among the Syrian states, especially during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, which is known as "the age of the archives" after the Ebla tablets. [11] Mardiikh IIA: The early period between 3000 and 2400 BC is designated "Mardikh IIA".
For computational reasons, astronomical year numbering and the ISO 8601 standard designate years so that AD 1 = year 1, 1 BC = year 0, 2 BC = year −1, etc. [c] In common usage, ancient dates are expressed in the Julian calendar, but ISO 8601 uses the Gregorian calendar and astronomers may use a variety of time scales depending on the ...