2nd-millennium BC establishments

archaeological period

Mesoamerican former civilization

Babylonia (; , ) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state . During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively called "the country of Akkad" ( in Akkadian), a deliberate archaism in reference to the previous glory of the Akkadian Empire. It was often involved in rivalry with the linguistically related state of Assyria in Upper Mesopotamia, and with Elam to the east. Babylonia briefly became the m

Indo-European ethnolinguistic group

historical state in Mesopotamia

archaic language in the Vedas (2nd millennium BCE)

archaeological culture

complex pre-Columbian era society that included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru

abjad used for writing Old South Arabian languages

Yamhad (Yamḫad) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom centered on Ḥalab (Aleppo) in Syria. The kingdom emerged at the end of the 19th century BC and was ruled by the Yamhad dynasty, who counted on both military and diplomacy to expand their realm. From the beginning of its establishment, the kingdom withstood the aggressions of its neighbors Mari, Qatna and the Old Assyrian Empire, and was turned into the most powerful Syrian kingdom of its era through the actions of its king Yarim-Lim I. By the middle of the 18th century BC, most of Syria minus the south came under the authority of Yamhad,

Bronze Age in Scandinavia

stone bridge, one of three, near the modern road from Tiryns to Epidauros in Argolida, Greece

archaeological era in Korean prehistory (ca. 1500–300 BCE), named after the undecorated or plain cooking and storage vessels that form a large part of the pottery assemblage over the entire length of the period

archaeological site in Syria

Period of approximately 1300-700 BC in Europe

royal palace of the kingdom of Mari in eastern Syria

16th-century BC royal cemetery in southern Greece

Rapiqum (also Rapiku and Rapiqu), ra-bi-qa-wiKI, was a city of the ancient Near East. The city was located in the north of Mesopotamia, probably on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, in modern Iraq. It is firmly attested from early in the 2nd Millennium BC until early in the 1st Millennium BC.