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The23rd century BCwas acenturythat lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.
Events
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- 2334 BC– 2279 BC: (short chronology)Sargon of Akkad's conquest ofMesopotamia.
- c. 2300 BC:Indus Valley civilisation(Harappan) flourishing in modern-day easternPakistan- westernIndia.
- c. 2300 BC: Metals start to be used inNorthern Europe.
- c. 2300 BC:Unetice cultureemerges in the modern dayCzech Republic.
- c. 2300 BC: CanalBahr Yusuf(current name) is created when the waterway from theNileto the natural lake (nowLake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
- c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: "Head of a man fromNineveh"(modernKuyunjik,Iraq) is made. It is now inIraq Museum,Baghdad.
- c. 2300 BC –2184 BC:Disk ofEnheduanna,fromUr,(modernMuqaiyir,Iraq) is made. It is now inUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia.
- c. 2300–2250 BC, reigns ofPepi I MeryreandMerenre Nemtyemsaf I,beginning ofPepi II Neferkares' rule, all of theSixth Dynasty of Egypt.
- c. 2288 BC: "QueenMerye-ankhnesand her son Pepy II "is sculpted,Sixth dynasty of Egypt.The alabaster statuette is now at TheBrooklyn Museum of Art,New York.
- c. 2285 BC:Enheduanna,high priestess of the moon godNannainUr,was born.
- c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela ofNaram-Sin,probably fromSippar,discovered inSusa(modernShush,Iran), is made. It is now inMusée du Louvre,Paris.
- c. 2250 BC: The beginning of theMeghalayan Stage,the last of the three stages of theHolocene.[1][2]
- c. 2250 BC: Earliest evidence of maize cultivation inCentral America.
- c. 2240 BC:Akkad,capital of theAkkadian Empire,becomes the largest city in the world, surpassingMemphis,capital ofEgypt.[3]
- c. 2220 BC:Scord of Brousterfarmstead established inShetland,Scotland
- c. 2220 BC:Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska)volcano erupts near present-daySitka, Alaska.
- c. 2215 BC: AGutiarmy swept down from theZagros Mountainsand defeated the demoralizedAkkadianarmy. They tookAgade,the capital ofAkkad,and destroyed it thoroughly.
- c. July 2215 BC:Comet Hale-Boppvisits the inner solar system and would not return until the year AD 1997.
References
[edit]- ^*"ICS chart containing the Quaternary and Cambrian GSSPs and new stages (v 2018/07) is now released!".RetrievedFebruary 1,2019.
- ^*Conners, Deanna (September 18, 2018)."Welcome to the Meghalayan age".RetrievedFebruary 1,2019.
- ^Rosenberg, Matt T."Largest Cities Through History".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-08-18.Retrieved2009-11-11.
