Editing 2nd millennium BC (section)

== Empires and dynasties ==
[[File:Ancient Near East 1100BC.svg|thumb|280x280px|Empires in the [[Ancient history|Ancient]] [[Near East]] around the end of the 2nd Millennium BC]]
*[[Ancient Near East]]
** [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt]]
** [[New Kingdom of Egypt]]
**[[Old Assyrian Empire]]
**[[Middle Assyrian Empire]]
** [[Elam]]
** [[Hittites]] Old Kingdom in [[Anatolia]]
*[[Vedic India]]
** [[Kuru Kingdom]]<ref>The Kuru kingdom of the late Vedic period was most likely established around 1200 BC, although there are no datable contemporary references.  {{Citation | last =Pletcher | first =Kenneth | year =2010 | title =The History of India | publisher =The Rosen Publishing Group | isbn =9781615301225 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=VsujRFvaHI8C&q=Kuru+Kaushambi&pg=PA63}}
* {{Citation | last =Samuel | first =Geoffrey | year =2010 | title =The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century | publisher =Cambridge University Press}}</ref>
*[[Bronze Age China]]
** [[Shang dynasty]]
** [[Zhou dynasty]]
* [[Africa]]
** [[Land of Punt]]