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Century
The 23rd century BC was a
century that lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.
Events
Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, possibly the longest reigning monarch in recorded history
2334 BC – 2279 BC: (
short chronology )
Sargon of Akkad 's conquest of
Mesopotamia .
c. 2300 BC:
Indus Valley civilisation (Harappan) flourishing in modern-day eastern
Pakistan - western
India .
c. 2300 BC: Metals start to be used in
Northern Europe .
c. 2300 BC:
Unetice culture emerges in the modern day
Czech Republic .
c. 2300 BC: Canal
Bahr Yusuf (current name) is created when the waterway from the
Nile to the natural lake (now
Lake Moeris ) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: "Head of a man from
Nineveh " (modern
Kuyunjik ,
Iraq ) is made. It is now in
Iraq Museum ,
Baghdad .
c. 2300 BC –
2184 BC : Disk of
Enheduanna , from
Ur , (modern
Muqaiyir ,
Iraq ) is made. It is now in
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ,
University of Pennsylvania ,
Philadelphia .
c. 2300–2250 BC, reigns of
Pepi I Meryre and
Merenre Nemtyemsaf I , beginning of
Pepi II Neferkares ' rule, all of the
Sixth Dynasty of Egypt .
c. 2288 BC: "Queen
Merye-ankhnes and her son Pepy II" is sculpted,
Sixth dynasty of Egypt . The alabaster statuette is now at The
Brooklyn Museum of Art ,
New York .
c. 2285 BC:
Enheduanna , high priestess of the moon god
Nanna in
Ur , was born.
c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of
Naram-Sin , probably from
Sippar , discovered in
Susa (modern
Shush ,
Iran ), is made. It is now in
Musée du Louvre ,
Paris .
c. 2250 BC: The beginning of the
Meghalayan Stage , the last of the three stages of the
Holocene .
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c. 2250 BC: Earliest evidence of maize cultivation in
Central America .
c. 2240 BC:
Akkad , capital of the
Akkadian Empire , becomes the largest city in the world, surpassing
Memphis , capital of
Egypt .
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c. 2220 BC:
Scord of Brouster farmstead established in
Shetland ,
Scotland
c. 2220 BC:
Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska) volcano erupts near present-day
Sitka, Alaska .
c. 2215 BC: A
Guti army swept down from the
Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized
Akkadian army. They took
Agade , the capital of
Akkad , and destroyed it thoroughly.
c. July 2215 BC:
Comet Hale-Bopp visits the inner solar system and would not return until the year AD 1997.
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