Zoroastrianism – perhaps the world’s first monotheistic religion – emerges in modern-day Iran
Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century C.E.
Civilization (3000 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.)
Jade culture thrives in modern-day Philippines
Tens of thousands of exquisitely crafted jade artifacts found at a site in Batangas province have led scholars to conclude that the Philippines had a significant “jade culture” before the archipelago’s metal age.
Monagrillo culture emerges in modern-day Panama
Monagrillo is an archaeological site in south-central Panama. It provides the earliest example of ceramics in Central America along with one of the earliest examples of maize agriculture in the region.
Austronesian people arrive in modern-day Indonesia
Austronesian people form the majority of the modern population. They may have arrived in Indonesia around 2000 B.C.E. and are thought to have originated in Taiwan.
Andronovo culture flourishes in western Siberia and the Steppe
The Andronovo culture is a collection of similar local Bronze Age cultures that flourished c. 2000-900 B.C.E. in western Siberia and the central Eurasian Steppe.
The Xia Dynasty becomes first government and first dynasty in China
The Xia Dynasty (c. 2070-1600 B.C.E.) was the first government to emerge in ancient China and became the first to adhere to the policy of dynastic succession.
The Poverty Point culture in modern-day southern United States flourishes
Poverty Point culture is an archaeological culture that corresponds to an ancient group of indigenous peoples who inhabited the area of the lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 2200 B.C.E. – 700 B.C.E.
Members of Akkadian Empire make perhaps first-ever written record of composting food waste for agriculture
Though the Akkadians may have been the first to record the use of compost, the practice likely began long before the advent of writing.
Sargon the Great forms the world’s first empire in Mesopotamia, the Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire eventually also stretched across modern day Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon.
Ancient Andeans build first city in the Americas, Caral, in modern-day Peru
Caral was a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca Province, Peru. Caral is the most ancient city of the Americas and a well-studied site of the Norte Chico civilization.