The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.
Its first half is dominated by the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Babylonia. The alphabet develops. Indo-Iranian migration onto the Iranian plateau and onto the Indian subcontinent propagates the use of the chariot. Chariot warfare and population movements lead to violent changes at the center of the millennium, a new order emerges with Greek dominance of the Aegean and the rise of the Hittite Empire. The end of the millennium sees the transition to the Iron Age. World population begins to rise steadily, reaching some 50 million towards 1000 BC.
Overview
Middle Bronze Age
Spending much of their energies in trying to recuperate from the chaotic situation that existed at the turn of the millennium, the most powerful civilizations of the time, Egypt and Mesopotamia, turned their attention to more modest goals. The Pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and their contemporary Kings of Babylon, of Amorite origin, brought good governance without much tyranny, and favoured elegant art and architecture. Farther east, the Indus Valley civilization was in a period of decline, possibly as a result of intense, ruinous flooding.
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by: Dailey & VincentI didn't come to kiss the bride
So don't seat me on either side
I just came by to see the show
I'm close enough, I'll stand right here
I can see and I can hear; course
I heard it all years ago.
I hear the organ play a minor melody
Is that the one they call their song
Church vows always, make love sound so easy
But "As long as you live" is so long.
I didn't come to kiss the bride
Nor come to call the groom outside, no
I can't stay and say hello
That's not the reason I came by
I came today to say goodbye to
Something that happened years ago.
I hear the organ play a minor melody
Is that the one they call their song
What God joined together, let no man put asunder
But He sure put us under, right or wrong?
Give the bride and groom my best
And tell her mom and all the rest that
I was here but really had to go
Reception line's too long outside, and
I didn't come to kiss the bride
I did all that years ago.
There's no reason I should stay
The groom won't shake hands anyway, and