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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Trade is carried on from Crete round the Mediterranean as far west as Sicily and in the east down to Egypt | |
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| 2000 BC |
| | | The god Ashur is worshipped at a shrine on the Tigris known by his name (the origin of the word Assyria) | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Africa south of the equatorial forests is largely inhabited by the Khoisan, of whom the San and the Hottentots are the modern survivors | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Medicine men in Peru practise trephination, cuttting holes in the skulls of brave or foolhardy patients | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Rice is by now grown in the Indus Valley civilization, in the region of Lothal in modern Pakistan, and in parts of China and Korea | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The elephant is tamed in the Indus civilization | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The centre of power in Egypt moves to the interior, with the capital at Thebes rather than Memphis | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The red jungle fowl is domesticated as poultry in southeast Asia | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Administrative records and accounts at Knossos are kept in a script, as yet undeciphered, known as Linear A | |
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