The world in 2,000 BC
On 1 July 2,000 BC, IntMap’s historical map draws 48 names across the world. The borders for this date come from Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (by year), then historical-basemaps — each drawn only where the records before it are silent. It also draws 99 outlines whose name the record does not give for this date.
Why this year has a page
The historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for this year.
Names on the map
As the map labels them, largest first by the area of the outline drawn. Areas are of the drawn outline, rounded, and approximate. The record column says which record draws the outline; a Wikidata item is given where the record links one.
| Name | Record | Drawn area (km²) |
|---|---|---|
| Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 28,800,000 |
| Bantu | historical-basemaps | 12,300,000 |
| Saharan pastoral nomads (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 10,200,000 |
| Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 7,600,000 |
| Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 7,300,000 |
| Khoisan | historical-basemaps | 6,360,000 |
| Austroasian rice cultures (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 5,650,000 |
| Arctic marine mammal hunters (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 5,130,000 |
| Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,500,000 |
| Andronovo | historical-basemaps | 4,170,000 |
| Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 4,120,000 |
| Thai | historical-basemaps | 3,810,000 |
| Semites | historical-basemaps | 2,990,000 |
| Austronesians | historical-basemaps | 1,510,000 |
| Tibeto-Burmanese | historical-basemaps | 1,410,000 |
| Afanasevo | historical-basemaps | 1,310,000 |
| Catacomb culture | historical-basemaps | 953,000 |
| Koreans | historical-basemaps | 800,000 |
| Indus Valley Civilization | Cliopatria Q42534 | 756,000 |
| Elam | Cliopatria · historical-basemaps Q128904 | 388,000 |
| Anatolian tribes (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 308,000 |
| Dravidians | historical-basemaps | 306,000 |
| Norte Chico | historical-basemaps | 294,000 |
| Oxus | historical-basemaps | 279,000 |
| Beaker | historical-basemaps | 268,000 |
| Xia | historical-basemaps | 255,000 |
| Egypt | historical-basemaps | 233,000 |
| Hittites | historical-basemaps | 231,000 |
| city-states (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 228,000 |
| Ur | historical-basemaps | 197,000 |
| Ainu | historical-basemaps | 186,000 |
| Jōmon | historical-basemaps | 174,000 |
| Indus valley civilization (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 172,000 |
| Valdivia | historical-basemaps | 163,000 |
| Chinchorro culture | historical-basemaps | 151,000 |
| Sintashta | historical-basemaps | 144,000 |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | Cliopatria Q191324 | 94,000 |
| Kerma | historical-basemaps | 85,300 |
| Canaan | historical-basemaps | 80,800 |
| Namazga | historical-basemaps | 76,200 |
| Hurrian Kingdoms | historical-basemaps | 74,900 |
| Tasmanian hunter-gatherers (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 59,400 |
| Sumerian City-States | Cliopatria | 54,000 |
| Únětice | historical-basemaps | 34,600 |
| Dakapeng culture (a description by the source, not a name) | historical-basemaps | 32,900 |
| Hunters-gatherers | historical-basemaps | 22,100 |
| Minoan | historical-basemaps | 8,800 |
| Cycladic | historical-basemaps | 4,060 |
What changed since 3,000 BC
Names counted are those the records date to the year or the day (CShapes, OpenHistoricalMap, Cliopatria). Outlines filled from the nearest historical-basemaps sheet are counted only when both years are years that sheet was drawn for — otherwise the change would be the switch between two sheets, not a change in the world. Names are compared as written, so a polity a record names differently in the two years (Carthaginian Empire, then Carthage) is in both lists.
Now drawn (25)
Archaic Amerindian hunter-gatherers, Saharan pastoral nomads, Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers, Paleo-Siberian hunter-gatherers, Austroasian rice cultures, Arctic marine mammal hunters, Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers and maïze farmers, Andronovo, Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers, Thai, Tibeto-Burmanese, Catacomb culture, Koreans, Anatolian tribes, Oxus, Beaker, Xia, Hittites, Chinchorro culture, Sintashta, Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Canaan, Tasmanian hunter-gatherers, Únětice, Dakapeng culture
No longer drawn (5)
Aboriginal tribes, Yamnaya culture, Early Dynastic Period of Egypt, Aboriginal Tasmanians, Dapenkeng culture
Events dated to 2,000 BC
The index of dated events holds no event for 2,000 BC.
Sources and method
Borders and names: Cliopatria v0.2.1 (Seshat Global History Databank, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) · CC BY 4.0 · adapted by IntMap: simplified, BC years made astronomical, and the ground OpenHistoricalMap (1689–1885, and from 1886 where CShapes is silent) and CShapes (1886–2019) state removed on their own dates + aourednik/historical-basemaps (github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps) · GPL-3.0 · adapted by IntMap: each sheet before 1886 less the ground OpenHistoricalMap and Cliopatria state at that sheet's year.
Which years have a page is worked out when the site is built, from three rules applied to the records themselves: every year the historical-basemaps atlas drew a world sheet for; every year whose change from the year before (names the dated records begin or stop drawing) is in the top 5% of all such year-to-year changes since the dated records begin, leaving out the years where one record hands over to another; and every year of a geopolitical, war or revolution event in the dated events index, up to the last year the border records cover (2019).
On each year the map is read on 1 July, the instant the app’s own year links open on. Names are the source’s own, translated where the source or IntMap’s name table has a translation. A name is what a record draws there, not a verdict of history.
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