THE SECOND MILLENIUM B.C. | |||||||||||
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY B.C. | |||||||||||
2000 B.C. | |||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | HOLY BIBLE JOB | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Byblos, on the Levant Coast, has grown into a port for the export of Lebanese timber to Egypt. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Phylakopi, on the island of Milos, becomes a center of trade in the volcanic glass obsidian found on the island. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Square sails on two and even three masts assist Phoenician and Cretan oarsmen. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Europe remains in the Stone Age as the Bronze Age proceeds in the Near East. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Decimal notation appears in Babylonia. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Farmers in the Near East raise some cattle for meat, some for milk. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Egyptians abandon efforts to domesticate animals devoting more effort to hunting and gathering. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Watermelon is cultivated in Africa, figs in Arabia, tea and bananas in India, apples in the Indus Valley; agriculture is well established in most of the central isthmus of the Western Hemisphere. | ||||||||||
-2000 XX XX | Egypt - Twin Dynasty Wars continue | ||||||||||
1991 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1991 XX XX | Egypt - Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV dies, ending the 11th Dynasty. | ||||||||||
-1991 XX XX | Egypt - Pharaoh Amenemhat I becomes Pharaoh, beginning the 12th Dynasty. | ||||||||||
1986 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1986 XX XX | Egypt - Twin Dynasty Wars end. | ||||||||||
1973 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1973 XX XX | Gen 11:18 I Chr 1:25c |
HOLY BIBLE REU born. | |||||||||
1971 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1971 XX XX | Amenemhat I appoints his son Senusret I co-regent | ||||||||||
1962 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1962 XX XX | Senusret I becomes Pharaoh. Amenemhet I is murdered. | ||||||||||
-1962 XX XX | The Story of Sinuhe | ||||||||||
1957 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1957 XX XX | Asul becomes King of Gojoseon. | ||||||||||
1950 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1950 XX XX | The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm | ||||||||||
1941 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1941 XX XX | Gen 11:20 I Chr 1:26a |
HOLY BIBLE SERUG born. | |||||||||
1932 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1932 XX XX | WAR Amorite conquest of Ur. | ||||||||||
1929 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1929 XX XX | Amenemhet II (Nubkaure) | ||||||||||
-1929 XX XX | Noeul becomes King of Gojoseon. | ||||||||||
1913 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1913 XX XX | WAR Egyptian-Nubian war begins. | ||||||||||
1911 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1911 XX XX | Gen 11:22 I Chr 1:26b |
HOLY BIBLE NAHOR born. | |||||||||
1906 B.C. | |||||||||||
-1906 XX XX | Dohae becomes King of Gojoseon.
1903 B.C. | -1903 XX XX |
| WAR Egyptian-Nubian war ends. |
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