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General

Population: Perhaps 27 million*

• General: Iron Age
• Entertainment: Start of the Epic of Gilgamesh (2000 BC)
• Languages: Crete's alphabet invented
• Law: Hammurabi's code developed (see next century)
• Trade: Trade routes begin for amber and metals 92000 BC)

Africa

• General: Egypt occupies lower Nubia (2000 BC)
• Central: Farming begins in sub-Saharan Africa (2000 BC)
• East: Cattle farming (2000 BC)
• Egypt: Middle kingdom in Egypt begins as Egypt is reunified under 11th dynasty at Thebes (2050 - 2040 BC)
  Classical period of Egyptian literature begins (2000 BC)
  Start of 12th Dynasty (2000 BC)
  Imhotep becomes first physician of Egypt (2000 BC)
  Egyptians begin worshipping myriad of gods (2000 BC)
• North Africa: Start of the desertification of the Sahara - used to be rich grassland (2000 BC)
• South Africa: Bantu people begin migrating from central Africa (2000 BC)

Americas

• North America: Inuits settle Arctic (2000 BC)
• South America: Farming and cotton in Peru widespread (2000 BC)
  Andean settlements thrive in Peru (2000 BC)

Asia

• India: Indus Valley civilization arises (2000 BC)
• Japan: Jomon culture develops (2000 BC)

Europe

• General: Start of the Greek/Roman classical age (2000 BC)
• Britain: Metal manufacturing present - pins and fasteners found (2000 BC)
  Stonehenge's inner ring created (2000 BC)
  Wessex culture developed (2000 BC)
• Central Europe: Hill forts developed (2000 BC)
• Crete: Minoan palace civilization and early heiroglyphic script (2000 BC)
• Eastern Europe: Afanasievo Neolithic culture begins in Siberia (2000 BC)
• Greece: Greeks settle Peloponnese regions (2000 BC)
  Mycenaean (Archaean) civilization begins as Greeks inhabit peninsula (2000 BC)
• Italian States: Northern invaders make their way into Italy (2000 BC)
• Northern Europe: Bronze Age (2000 BC)
• Scotland: Bronze age begins (2000 BC)

Middle East

• General: Major cities of Mesopotamia fonded (2000 BC)
  Amorites conquer Mesopotamia and build Babylon (2000 BC)
• Assyria: Assyria established to 1500 BC (2000 BC)
• Arabia: End of the Umm an-Nar Culture (2000 BC)
  Start of the Sabr culture (2000 BC)
• Babylon: Start of the first dynasty (2050 BC)
  Hittites plunder Babylon (2000 BC)
  Babylon increases in power (2000 BC)
• Mesopotamia: End of Akkad (2080 BC)
  End of Sumerian power (2000 BC)
  Hurrians established to 1350 BC (2000 BC)
• Sumeria: End of old period of Sumer (2000 BC)
• Turkey: Writing reaches Anatolia (2000 BC)
• Ur: Ziggurat of Ur built (2060 BC)

Pacific

• General: Austronesians settle in Melanesia (New Guinea) (SW Oceana)