During the 6th – 5th millennium BC, various animals were domesticated, dwellings became more sophisticated and could shelter larger families.

However, the domestication of oxen in Mesopotamia and by its contemporary Indus valley civilization, perhaps as early as the 6th millennium .., provided mankind with the draft power necessary to develop the larger, animal-drawn true ard ( or scratch plough ).

Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the region in the 2nd millennium BC, with a larger mainland colony – initially known as Parthenope – developing around the 9th – 8th centuries BC, at the end of the Greek Dark Ages.

However, it seems that Greater Scaup eats larger food items on average, and the species are sympatric in part of their range and presumably have been for millennium without any problems due to competition.

The name Salona preserves the language of the early inhabitants of this area whom the Romans called Dalmatae, and considered to be part of a larger group called Illyrians. In the first millennium BCE, the Greeks had set up an emporion ( marketplace ) there.

The Balts entered history in the early 2nd millennium BC and were organized into these larger social entities, one of which was termed a " duchy " by non-Baltic writers.

The larger concept of tianxia is closely associated with civilization and order in classical Chinese philosophy, and has formed the basis for the world view of the Chinese people and nations influenced by them since at least the first millennium BC.

Then there were the heavy metal followers, the large and getting larger indie scene, and the tropical rock followers, genre increasingly intermixed with the fledgling Cumbia and cumbia villera movement which would explode in the new millennium.

Although the Mimbres culture is the most well-known subset of the Mogollon archaeological culture-area, the entire Mogollon occupation spans a greater interval of time ( roughly one millennium ) and a vastly larger area than is encompassed by the Mimbres culture.

During the middle of the first millennium BC, the Mediterranean powers developed successively larger and more complex vessels, the most advanced being the classical trireme with up to 170 rowers.

The earliest of these empires is that of Ghana, probably founded in the first millennium by Soninke and whose animists populations subsisted by agriculture and trade across the Sahara, including gold, salt and cloth.

The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of many successive empires, and spanned from 1000 BC to 1 BC.

A millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire of which they were part, these European nations began spreading their Latin-derived languages and cultures around the world through their own empires, especially in the Americas.

The millennium from 500 BCE to 500 CE saw a series of empires of unprecedented size develop.

The Persians succeeded Elam in the mid 1st millennium.

In the 7th millennium BC, the Starčevo culture existed for a millennia, succeeded by the 6th millennium BC Vinča culture that prospered in the region.

Throughout the Iron Age, the people of the western Pomeranian areas belonged to the Jastorf culture, while the Lusatian culture of the East was succeeded by the Pomeranian culture, then in 150 BC by the Oxhöft ( Oksywie ) culture, and at the beginning of the first millennium by the Willenberg ( Wielbark ) Culture.

Archaeologically, Jin is commonly identified with the Korean bronze dagger culture, which succeeded the Liaoning bronze dagger culture in the late first millennium BCE.

The Srubna culture is succeeded by Scythians and Sarmatians in the 1st millennium BC, and by Khazars and Kipchaks in the first millennium AD.

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

As a consequence of these movements, there are no longer any Southern Cushites left in Kenya ( the Dahalo originally being Bushman peoples who adopted the language of their dominant Southern Cushitic neighbors sometime toward the last millennium BCE ).

The first people arrived on the territory of modern Lithuania in the 10th millennium BC after the glaciers had retreated and the last glacial period had ended.

Under this system, Norwegian is grouped together with the neighbouring languages Danish and Swedish, because the last millennium has seen all three undergo important changes, especially in grammar and lexis, which have set them apart from Faroese and Icelandic.

Exchange of the coca leaf between consumers in the highlands and growers in the low lying hills has gone on for at least the last millennium, strengthening local economic ties.

In fact, Sylvester was said to be petrified at the thought of the new millennium: on the last night of the year A. D. 999, Sylvester nervously celebrated mass, thinking the world might end even as he consecrated the bread and wine.

Folklands in Svitjod ( Uppland / Gästrikland ) < font color = red > red </ font > = Tiunda < font color = cyan > cyan </ font > = Attunda < font color = yellow > yellow </ font > = Roden / Roslagen < font color = green > green </ font > = Fjärdhundra The coastline has changed considerably in the last millennium due to post-glacial rebound.

Unlike the ancient Minoan civilization, the Mycenaean Greeks emphasized the need for fortifications alongside natural defenses of mountainous terrain, such as the massive Cyclopean walls built at Mycenae during the last half of the 2nd millennium BC.

The 1999 team would be the last playoff-bound team for over a decade, as the Rangers took a step backwards at the beginning of the new millennium.

For long periods of the last millennium Britain had the largest merchant fleet in the world, but it has slipped down the rankings as Flag of convenience has grown.

Linear-Elamite was used for a very brief period of time during the last quarter of the third millennium BC.

It was the 2000th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation, and the last year of the 2nd millennium.

It was the tenth and final decade of the 20th century and the last full decade of the 2nd millennium.

It was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, and the last year of the 19th century but the first year of the 1900s.

* December 8 – The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.

It is the 1989th year of the Common Era, or A. D .; the 989th year of the 2nd millennium ; the 89th year of the 20th century ; and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade.

It was also the last year of the 10th century as well as the last year of the 1st millennium of the Christian era ending on December 31st, but the first year of the 1000s decade.

* August 6 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire after about a millennium.

0s BC is usually considered the last decade of the 1st century BC and the 1st millennium BC.

The world population doubled over the first seven centuries of the millennium, ( from 310 million in AD 1000 to 600 million in AD 1700 ), and later increased tenfold over its last three centuries, exceeding to 6 billion in AD 2000.

It was the 2009th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last of the 2000s decade.

It appears as in the Amarna letters ( second half of the 2nd millennium BCE ), and is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium.