Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

Unlike the Semitic Akkadians and their descendant Assyrians, whose Anatolian possessions were peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia, the Hittites were centred at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia by 2000 BC.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

In central and western Anatolia another Indo European people, the Luwians came to the fore, circa 2000 BC.

William Prentice disagrees with both, noting that archeological evidence suggests that the Achaeans instead migrated from " southern Asia Minor to Greece, probably settling first in lower Thessaly " probably prior to 2000 BC.

For example, medicinal plants have been known in the Mesopotamia at least around 2000 BC.

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The earliest written records indicate the Egyptians and Babylonians used all the elementary arithmetic operations as early as 2000 BC.

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

Currency evolved from two basic innovations, both of which had occurred by 2000 BC.

Later, Yangshao culture was superseded by the Longshan culture, which was also centered on the Yellow River from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

Most archaeologists now connect the Xia to excavations at Erlitou in central Henan province, where a bronze smelter from around 2000 BC was unearthed.

However, in order to regard 2000 as the first year of the 21st century according to the astronomical year numbering, the astronomical year 0 has to correspond to the Gregorian year 1 BC.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

Corrimony chambered cairn near Drumnadrochit is an example dated to 2000 BC or older.

The first solid state electronic calculator was created in the 1960s, building on the extensive history of tools such as the abacus, developed around 2000 BC ; and the mechanical calculator, developed in the 17th century.

The first known tool used to aid arithmetic calculations was the Abacus, devised by Sumerians and Egyptians before 2000 BC.

One of the earliest objects made of smelted iron dates is a dagger dating to before 2000 BC, found in a context that suggests it was treated as an ornamental object of great value.

Urbanized culture has existed in the land between 3000 and 2000 BC.

Urban civilization, which includes modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, may have begun as early as 3000 to 2000 BC.

" Also in 2000, she played Alejandra Villarreal, who is Matt Damon's love interest in Billy Bob Thornton's film adaptation of the western bestselling novel, All the Pretty Horses.

* The Hi-Lo Country and All the Pretty Horses, released in 1998 and 2000 respectively, were almost entirely shot here.

* 2000: Black Horses, Cobalt Suns

* In 2000, McCarthy's novel All the Pretty Horses was made into a film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.

* Gebhards, Stacy V. ( 2000 ), When Mules Wear Diamonds: Mountain Packing with Mules and Horses Wilderness Skills, McCall, Idaho, OCLC 47630999

* Zamani baraye masti asbha (" A Time for Drunken Horses "), 2000.

After the success of his first album, Perkins released his second solo album Dark Horses ( 2000 ).

The book was adapted as a 2000 film with the same name, All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.

* Lady of Horses, Forge, June 2000

* Zhejiang Horses ( 2000 )

This song was covered by Kenny Rogers on his 1999 album, " She Rides Wild Horses ", sampled by Lil ' Crazed for his song " I Will Remember You ( Graduation Song )", and recorded by Séamus Egan and band Solas in 2000 on their album The Hour Before Dawn.

There was a tribute to the Australian Stock Horse during the 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony when an Australian Stock Horse reared and then a further 120 Stock Horses were ridden into the Stadium and performed intricate maneuvers to the music of the specially-written Olympics version of the main theme of the film The Man from Snowy River by Australian composer Bruce Rowland.

The inspiration for this musical performance came from the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, when the performance opened with 121 stockmen and women riding Australian Stock Horses in a tribute to the Australian pastoral heritage and the importance of the stock horse in Australia's heritage.

This has been kept since 2000 by the Swiss Pottok Society, which since 2004 is a member of the Swiss Society for Ponies and Small Horses SVPK.

His first feature film was A Time for Drunken Horses ( 2000 ), the first Kurdish film produced in Iran.

* " Weepster " aka " Weepy Horses " ( circa 2000 )

He was born in the southern Chilean island of Chiloé, and his literary career expanded from Perros, Caballos y Hombres (" Dogs, Horses and Men ") in 1935 to the publication of his memoirs Los Pasos del Hombre ( The Steps of Man ) in 2000.

* A Tale of Two Horses, Frontline, November 2000, includes:

* Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973-1988, poetry ( Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2000 )

Her partner is Douglas Hodge, who also played her son Damien Trotter as an adult in the Only Fools and Horses episode " Heroes and Villains ", and they have two children, a daughter, Mollie Rose, born in 1991 and a son born c. 2000.

* Several monuments Valencian sculptor Rafael Pi Belda: A San Juan de la Cruz ( 1983 ), The Moor and Christian ( 1986 ), Via Crucis ( 2000, Royal Basilica Santuario de la Vera Cruz de Caravaca ), a work commemorating the award the Holy See of the Jubilee Year in perpetuity to the Basilica Santuario de la Vera Cruz de Caravaca ( 2001 ) and the Horses of Wine ( 2007 ).

Originally part of a solo project to fulfil a recording contract, the Dark Horses had formed into a band by the release of the second album Dark Horses in 2000.

* Dark Horses ( 2000 ) # 24 AUS