Beginning with the Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Ionian Greeks, usurping the related but earlier Mycenaean Greeks.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ).

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

Fist depicted in Sumerian relief ( in Iraq ) carvings from the 3rd millennium BC, while an ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millennium BC depicts both fist-fighters and spectators.

By the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the Zhou Dynasty began to emerge in the Yellow River valley, overrunning the territory of the Shang.

The Rubha an Dùnain peninsula on the island of Skye provides an example from the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC.

Proto-Greek speakers possibly entered the Greek peninsula in the early 2nd millennium BC.

Prior to the 2nd millennium BC, the Greek peninsula was inhabited by various pre-Hellenic peoples, the most notable of which were the Pelasgians.

Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.

The Fertile Crescent in the 2nd millennium BC.

Early uses of waterpower date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, where irrigation has been used since the 7th millennium BC and water clocks had been used since the early 2nd millennium BC.

The oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The Battle-Axe-or Cord Ceramic-culture seems to have practiced agriculture and animal husbandry outside of Finland, but the earliest confirmed traces of agriculture in Finland date later, approximately to the 2nd millennium BCE.

During the 2nd millennium BCE these evolved – possibly under an Indo-European ( most likely Baltic ) influence – into proto-Sami ( inland ) and proto (- Baltic )- Finnic ( coast ).

The Sumerian civilization spanned over 3000 years and began with the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period ( mid-6th millennium BC ) through the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ) and the Early Dynastic periods ( 3rd millennium BC ) until the rise of Assyria and Babylonia in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC respectively.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BCE ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century CE.

There is evidence, however, that shows strong continuity with Bronze Age culture, although as one moves later into Iron I the culture begins to diverge more significantly from that of the late 2nd millennium.

In the 2nd millennium, ore mining developed in Central Kazakhstan, pastoral animal husbandry appeared and spread, and horse nomadic economy became a developed technology as a viable production method in the Eurasian steppes.

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

* Metrodorus of Stratonicea ( late 2nd century BC )

Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.

), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.

The document is dated to the 2nd century BC and, in the form of a vision, briefly discusses dualism and the Watchers:

* Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC

The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

In West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean early copper zinc alloys are now known in small numbers from a number of third Millennium BC sites in the Aegean, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kalmykia, Turkmenistan and Georgia and from 2nd Millennium BC sites in West India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Israel.

* Epigenes of Byzantium, astrologer, lived in the 3rd – 2nd century BC

* Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria, 3rd – 2nd century BC

In addition the archaeological evidence indicates that in the 2nd century BC Celts expanded from Bohemia through the Kłodzko valley into Silesia, now part of Poland.

The Pannonian Boii are mentioned again in the late 2nd century BC when they repelled the Cimbri and Teutones ( Strabo VII, 2, 2 ).

Colonel Kunio Nakagawa — commander of the Division's 2nd Regiment — led the preparations for the island's defense.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

Hanson, Catalogue of New Testament Papyri & Codices 2nd — 10th Centuries

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

The standard can be found and used free of charge on the ECMA site .< ref > ECMA International: < cite > Standard ECMA-367 — Eiffel: Analysis, Design and Programming Language 2nd edition ( June 2006 )</ cite >; available online at www. ecma-international. org / publications / standards / Ecma-367. htm The ISO version < ref > International Organisation for Standardisation: < cite > Standard ISO / IEC DIS 25436 </ cite >, available online at is identical in all respects except formatting.

* Josh Beckett ( 2001 – 2005 ) — Beckett was drafted by the Marlins in the first round ( 2nd overall ) of the 1999 Amateur Draft.

The plan was that the New Zealand 2nd Division — with the remains of Indian 5th Division and 7th Motor Brigade under its command — would swing north to threaten the Axis flank and rear.

At daylight, two British armoured brigades — 2nd Armoured Brigade and the fresh 23rd Armoured Brigade — would sweep through the gap created by the infantry.

Helmut Koester, however, claims that the following part — the only part preserved in the original Greek — may have been composed in the late 2nd century:

* Allied with Venus in honourable positions Saturn makes his subjects haters of women, lovers of antiquity, solitary, unpleasant to meet, unambitious, hating the beautiful, ... — Ptolemy, ' Of the Quality of the Soul ', 2nd century.

— Alciphron, ' Thais to Euthyedmus ', 2nd century.

* Socialists ( socialism ) — Freedom ranked 1st, Equality ranked 2nd

" — Volume I, 1st edition, page 379 ( page 362 in 2nd edition ; page 360 in abridged version ).

* July 2004 — SCORM 2004 ( 2nd Edition )

* 1, 912 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Vättern, 2nd largest lake in Sweden

The various forms of Alan — Greek: Αλανοί, Αλαννοί ; Chinese: 阿蘭聊 Alanliao ( Pinyin ) in the 2nd century, 阿蘭 Alan ( Pinyin ) in the 3rd century — and Iron ( a self-designation of the Alans ' modern Ossetian descendants, indicating early tribal self-designation ) are Iranian dialectical forms of Aryan.

With the release of the 3rd edition of Dungeons & Dragons, RPGA — the organized play division of WotC — announced a new massively shared living campaign, Living Greyhawk, modeled on a 2nd edition campaign called Living City.