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( 3rd millennium BC4th millennium BC 3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC other millennia) Events Foundation of the city of Mari ( Syria) ( 29th century BC ) Creation of the Kingdom of Elam ( Iraq) Germination of the Bristlecone pine tree "Methuselah" about 2700 BC, the olde - 2nd millennium BC3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC other millennia) Events Second dynasty of Babylon First Bantu migrations from west Africa Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia ( 1900 BC) Civilization in Palestine ( 1800 BC) Middle Kingdom in Egypt ( 2052 - 1st millennium BC2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC 1st millennium AD other millennia) Events The Iron Age began in Western Europe Egypt declined as a major power The Tanakh was written Buddhism was founded Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire)

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1700 - 1500 BC -- HurrianThe Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East, who apparently entered Mesopotamia from the north before 2500 BC and established themselves as rulers of small kingdoms in northern Mesopotamia and Syria. The largest and most influential Hurrian nation conquests
1633 BC -- End of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties of Egypt , start of the Fifteenth dynasty

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