2000 BCE

These names however remain unattested in sources, and come from the original Babylonian Empire from 2000 BCE, not the Chaldean Empire or Persian Empire of the Book of Esther.

First activities were linked to irrigation and flood control, as demonstrated by traces of dykes, dams, and canals dating back to at least 2000 BCE that were found in ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, as well as around the early settlements of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the Indus valley.

The period of the composition, redaction and commentary of these texts is known as the Vedic period, which lasted from roughly 2000 to 1500 BCE.

Certain scholarship holds that the practices, emblems and architecture now commonly associated with the Hindu pantheon and Jainism may go back as far as Late Harappan times to the period 2000 – 1500 BCE.

Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population, are thought to have originally been from Taiwan and arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE.

They may have arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE and are thought to have originated in Taiwan.

Somewhere between 2600 BCE and 2000 BCE, the city seems to have been largely abandoned in favor of the new nearby settlement of Nausharo when the Indus Valley Civilisation was in its middle stages of development.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

As the Sahara dried after 2000 BCE, the north of Niger became the desert it is today, with settlements and trade routes clinging to the Air in the north, the Kaouar and shore of Lake Chad in the west, and ( apart for a scattering of oases ) most people living along what is now the southern border with Nigeria and the southwest of the country.

Between 2600 and 2000 BCE, region became more arid and Mehrgarh was abandoned in favour of the Indus Valley, where a new civilization was in the early stages of development.

Major urban centers were at Dholavira, Kalibangan, Harappa, Lothal, Mohenjo-daro, and Rakhigarhi, as well as an offshoot called the Kulli culture ( 2500 – 2000 BCE ) in southern Balochistan, which had similar settlements, pottery and other artifacts.

Most evidence points to an independent development of pottery in the Amerindian cultures, starting with their Archaic Era ( 3500 – 2000 BCE ), and into their Formative period ( 2000 BCE-200 CE ).

The spice trade developed throughout South Asia and Middle East in around 2000 BCE with cinnamon and pepper, and in East Asia with herbs and pepper.

The Bronze Age on the territory of Slovakia went through three stages of development, stretching from 2000 to 800 BCE.

The proto-Inca cultures of South America continued at a Stone Age level until around 2000 BCE, when gold, copper and silver made their entrance, the rest following later.

* Ancient Egyptian quasi-theatrical events – earliest recorded quasi-theatrical event dates back to 2000 BCE with the " passion plays " of Ancient Egypt.

The earliest reference to the city is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BCE, found in June 1970, while digging to make a kiln for a brick factory in the south western corner of the city.

The name Shiraz is mentioned in cuneiform inscriptions from around 2000 BCE found in south western corner of the Shiraz city.

* c. 2500 BCE – 2000 BCE: Mohenjo-Daro is about in size and has a population of c. 20, 000 to 50, 000.

Austronesian peoples added to the native Melanesian population around 2000 BCE.

The earliest evidence of humans in the Lesser Antilles are from 2000 BCE in Antigua.

* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

* Aberdeen ( film ), a film ( 2000 ) directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey

Authors who assert this thesis include Minsky ( 1967 ), Savage ( 1987 ) and Gurevich ( 2000 ):

Formerly an advocate of Altaic ( 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 ), now a critic of it.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

Armenian dram per US dollar-310. 00 ( 2008 ), 457. 69 ( 2005 ), 533. 45 ( 2004 ), 578. 76 ( 2003 ), 573. 35 ( 2002 ), 555. 08 ( 2001 ), 539. 53 ( 2000 )

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

* Alexander, FM The Universal Constant In Living, Dutton ( New York, 1941 ), Chaterson ( London, 1942 ), later editions 1943, 1946, Centerline Press ( USA, 1941, 1986 ), Mouritz ( UK, 2000 ) ISBN 0-913111-18-X, ISBN 978-0-913111-18-5, ISBN 0-9525574-4-4

On Amiga 1000 ( and first Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 model ), the power LED had no relation to the filter's status, a wire needed to be manually soldered between pins on the sound chip to disable the filter.

*" Kant's ' Appropriation ' of Lampe's God ", Harvard Theological Review 85: 1 ( January 1992 ), pp. 85 – 108 ; revised and reprinted as Chapter IV in Stephen Palmquist, Kant's Critical Religion ( Ashgate, 2000 ).

* Noël Carroll ( 2000 ), Theories of Art Today, University of Wisconsin Press.

) ( 2000 ), Differential Aesthetics.

* Newitz, Annalee ( 2000 ), " Ivory Tower.

The following twelve members have been promoted to the status of " Legend " since 1996: Ian Stewart ( 1997 ), Gordon Coventry ( 1998 ), Peter Hudson ( 1999 ), Kevin Bartlett ( 2000 ), Barrie Robran ( 2001 ), Bill Hutchison ( 2003 ), Jock McHale ( 2005 ), Darrel Baldock ( 2006 ), Norm Smith ( 2007 ), Alex Jesaulenko ( 2008 ), Kevin Murray ( 2010 ) and Barry Cable ( 2012 ).

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

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 August 2000, the government launched a second-stage privatization program, in which many large state enterprises will be privatized.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.

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.

On October 10, 2000, Clinton signed into law the U. S .– China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations ( PNTR ) trade status to People's Republic of China.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

The 2001 census was the first census in Botswana to comply with the SADC 2000 Census Project, the guidelines of which unify the demographic statistics in southern Africa.

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

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

In 2000, Major League Baseball reversed its decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect.

The same team behind the BBC's digital text service also launched the early incarnations of the BBC's Interactive Wimbledon and Interactive Open Golf services in 2000, which were awarded an Interactive BAFTA that year.

In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant, which works to improve the genetic diversity of managed animal populations.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

A honey bee queen may lay 2000 eggs per day during spring buildup, but she also must lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day during the foraging season, mostly to replace daily casualties, most of which are workers dying of old age.

It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

" In 2000, then-president Bob Jones III referred, on the university's web page, to Mormons and Catholics as " cults which call themselves Christian.

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.

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.

* Paris sent a corps of 2000 men, 1750 of which fought on the battlefield.