23rd century BC

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(24th century BC - 23rd century BC - 22nd century BC - other centuries)

(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)

[edit] Events

• 2334 BC - 2279 BC (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia.
• c. 2300 BC - Bronze Age started.
• c. 2300 BC - Dise of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was made. It is now in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
• c. 2300 BC - 2200 BC; Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) was made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
• 2289 BC? - Pepi II Neferkare, the longest reigning monarch of all time, died at the age of 100 after 94 years of rule.
• c. 2285 BC - Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.
• c. 2254 BC - 2218 BC; Stela of Naramsin was made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
• 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.

[edit] Significant persons

• Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history.