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Later, Yangshao culture was superseded by the Longshan culture, which was also centered on the Yellow River from about 3000 BC to 2000 BC.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

* 2000 BC: See Stonehenge ( novel )

* Bernard Cornwell-Sharpe's Fortress and Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

Near the small town Goseck archaeologists discovered in 1999 the oldest solar observatory in Europe, beating Stonehenge by more than 2000 years.

In 2000 / 2001 a project was established to try to transport a piece of bluestone from the village to Stonehenge.

This song makes reference to the Stonehenge, a monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, which is believed to have mainly been built between 2500 BC and 2000 BC.

When the growing Stonehenge free festival caused the monument to be closed at midsummer in 1985, the Church faded into obscurity but has maintained a presence at the re-opened solstice festivities since 2000.

For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $ 2000. 00, and their royalty rate is 10 % of a book priced at $ 20. 00-that is, $ 2. 00 per book-the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

It was rebuilt again by 1783 and this is the building that can be seen today, unchanged except for renovations done to it in 2000.

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe ( born 4 October 1947 ) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

This is not an annual event ; the most recent performances have been in August 2000 and 2005 but more are planned.

Cycling is a growing mode of transportation in Atlanta, more than doubling since 2009, when it comprised 1. 1 % of all commutes ( up from 0. 3 % in 2000 ).

Thus for an ion which traverses a 1 m flight path, across a time of 2000 ns, given an initial accelerating voltage of 5000 V and noting that one amu is 1 × 10 < sup >− 27 </ sup > kg, the mass-to-charge ratio ( more correctly the mass-to-ionisation value ratio ) becomes Z amu / charge.

The islands of the Azores emerged from what is called the Azores Platform, a 5. 8 million km² region that is morphologically accented by a depth of 2000 meters.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

Crystalline boron is a very hard, black material with a high melting point of above 2000 ° C.

Gale Owen-Crocker ( Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Manchester ) in The Four Funerals in Beowulf ( 2000 ) argues that a passage in the poem, commonly known as “ The Lay of the Last Survivor ” ( lines 2247 – 66 ), is an additional funeral.

Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).

The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe.

Magnetic ( compass ) north and geographic ( true ) north are only exactly the same for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico .< ref > But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass " changing " across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.

Basic English 2000 word list and VOA Special English 1500 word list is a dictionary for Simple English Wikipedia.

Food is consumed and transferred to points ( an increasing scale of 1000 points is awarded for each enemy burst in tandem with another meaning: one enemy burst equals one food item worth 1000 points, two enemies burst equals two food items worth 1000 and 2000 points, three enemies burst equals three food items worth 1000, 2000, and 4000 points, and so on ) which results in more lives.