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- 2000 B.C. redirects here. For the Canibus album, see 2000 B.C. (album)
(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
[edit] Events
- 2112 BC — 2095 BC — Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu.
- c. 2100 BC - 2050 BC; Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
- 2091 BC — beginning of the mythological Patriarchal Age is traditionally set in this year.
- 2080 BC — Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
- 2071 BC — Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
- 2064 BC – 1986 BC — Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
- 2049 BC — Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
- c. 2040 BC - End of First intermediate period in Ancient Egypt. Start of Middle Kingdom. Eleventh - 14th Dynasties.
- 2040 BC — Pharaoh Merykare died. End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt. Pharaoh Mentuhotep II started to rule. Start of Eleventh Dynasty.
- 2034 BC – 2004 BC — Ur-Amorite wars.
- c. 2009 BC - 1997 BC: "Model of a house and garden, from Thebes". 11th dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- c. 2009 BC - 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built. Eleventh Dynasty.
- 2004 BC — Elamite destruction of Ur.
- 2000 BC — Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
- 2000 BC — The town of Mantua was presumedly founded.
- 2000 BC — Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
- 2000 BC — Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
[edit] Significant persons
- Ur-Nammu, 3rd dynasty of Ur
- Shulgi of Urim
- Abraham (perhaps, other datings include 19th century BC, 17th century BC, 16th Century BC, and 15th Century BC)
- According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th avatar of Vishnu
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 2037 BC — Emperor Shen Nong makes first (perhaps mythical) tea drink by boiling fresh leaves.
- 2000 BC — First written accounts of Schizophrenia.