Culture & IdeasThe 2000s

Culture & Ideas in the 2000s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 2000s — 12 of them, drawn from 11 nations, running from 2001 to 2009. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
12
Nations
11
Earliest
2001
Latest
2009
Africa
5
Asia
3
Europe
1
North America
1
Oceania
1
South America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    Chad

    Discovery of Toumaï

    A team led by Michel Brunet recovered the cranium of Sahelanthropus tchadensis at the Toros-Menalla (TM 266) site in the Djurab desert; the species was announced in 2002 and dated to about seven million years.

    Era: Toumaï and the Sao

    Sources: Sahelanthropus tchadensis · Wikipedia, Sahelanthropus tchadensis · Australian Museum, Sahelanthropus tchadensis: Ten Years After the Discovery · Smithsonian Magazine

  2. South America

    Suriname

    Paramaribo named World Heritage

    UNESCO inscribes the Historic Inner City of Paramaribo, a Dutch colonial town blending European and local building traditions.

    Era: Democracy, Diversity, and Oil

    Sources: Historic Inner City of Paramaribo · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  3. Africa

    Gambia

    Kunta Kinteh Island recognised

    James Island and Related Sites were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003 as a memorial to the slave trade; the island was renamed Kunta Kinteh Island in 2011, recalling the figure in Alex Haley's Roots associated with nearby Juffure.

    Era: The river, European trade and the Atlantic slave trade

    Sources: Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Kunta Kinteh Island · Wikipedia

  4. Europe

    Andorra

    Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley inscribed by UNESCO

    Andorra's only World Heritage Site, the Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, was inscribed as a cultural landscape, recognised for its high-Pyrenean pastoralism and a communal land-ownership system surviving from the 13th century.

    Era: A Sovereign Democracy in the Heart of Europe

    Sources: Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  5. Africa

    Cape Verde

    Cesária Évora and morna go global

    Cesária Évora, the "barefoot diva", won a Grammy for the album Voz d'Amor, the high point of a career that carried Cape Verdean morna and its Creole longing to audiences worldwide.

    Era: A stable democracy and a global people

    Sources: Cesária Évora · Wikipedia, The story of morna: Cape Verde's music of displacement and return · Al Jazeera

  6. Asia

    Turkmenistan

    Nisa inscribed by UNESCO

    The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007 as an exceptional record of the Parthian civilisation at one of its earliest and most important cities.

    Era: Ancient Oases: Margiana and Parthian Nisa

    Sources: Parthian Fortresses of Nisa · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  7. North America

    Jamaica

    Bolt's sprinting dynasty

    Usain Bolt wins the 100m and 200m at three straight Olympics, cementing Jamaica's dominance of world sprinting.

    Era: Independent Jamaica and Global Culture

    Sources: Usain Bolt · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  8. Asia

    Malaysia

    Melaka and George Town inscribed by UNESCO

    UNESCO lists Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca, recognising more than five centuries of trade and multicultural exchange between East and West.

    Era: The New Economic Policy, Mahathir and Modern Malaysia

    Sources: Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  9. Asia

    Saudi Arabia

    Hegra becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site

    The Nabataean site of Hegra (al-Hijr) was inscribed as Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognizing the kingdom's deep pre-Islamic past.

    Era: Oil, Modernization and Contemporary Saudi Arabia

    Sources: Hegra Archaeological Site (al-Hijr / Madain Salih) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  10. Oceania

    Vanuatu

    Chief Roi Mata's Domain joins World Heritage List

    UNESCO inscribed the residence, death site and burial of Chief Roi Mata on Efate, Lelepa and Artok — Vanuatu's first World Heritage property.

    Era: Kastom, Cyclones and Climate Diplomacy

    Sources: Chief Roi Mata's Domain — World Heritage List · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Chief Roimata's Domain — World Heritage Site · Vanuatu Tourism Office

  11. Africa

    Burkina Faso

    Loropéni inscribed by UNESCO

    The Ruins of Loropéni are added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming Burkina Faso's first such site.

    Era: Loropéni and the Gold Frontier

    Sources: Ruins of Loropéni — World Heritage Centre · UNESCO, 13 new sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (2009) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  12. Africa

    Cape Verde

    Cidade Velha named a World Heritage Site

    UNESCO inscribed Cidade Velha, the Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande — the first European city in the tropics — as Cape Verde's only World Heritage Site, recognising its role in the Atlantic slave trade and colonial expansion.

    Era: A stable democracy and a global people

    Sources: Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Cidade Velha · Wikipedia