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(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
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- 2217 BC – 2193 BC — Nomadic invasions of Akkad.
- 2200 BC - Sixth dynasty of Egypt ended.
- c. 2190 BC - Old Kingdom finished in Ancient Egypt. Start of First Intermediate Period. 7th - 10th Dynasties.
- 2181 BC — Egypt: Pharaoh Nitocris died. End of Sixth Dynasty, start of Seventh Dynasty. Pharaoh Neferkara I started to reign.
- c. 2180 BC - Akkadian Empire fell under attack by the Guti (Mesopotamia), a mountain people from the northeast.
- 2173 BC — Egypt: End of Seventh Dynasty, start of Eighth Dynasty.
- 2160 BC — Egypt: Pharaoh Neferirkara died. End of Eighth Dynasty, start of Ninth Dynasty. Pharaoh Neferkare started to reign.
- c. 2160 BC — beginning of Middle Minoan period in Crete.
- c. 2150 BC - 2030 BC; Gilgamesh epic was written.
- c. 2150 BC - Lagash.
- c. 2144 BC — Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, started to reign.
- 2138 BC — Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on 24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.
- 2130 BC — Egypt: End of Ninth Dynasty, start of Tenth Dynasty. Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt started.
- 2124 BC — Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, died.
- c. 2120 BC - Votive statue of Gudea, from Lagash (modern Telloh, Iraq) was made. It is now in Musee du Louvre, Paris.
- 2116 BC – 2110 BC — Uruk-Gutian war.
- 2112 BC – 2095 BC — Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu.
- 2100 BC — The beginning of the Xia Dynasty in China.
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