20th century BC

Short description: One hundred years, from 2000 BC to 1901 BC

"2000 B.C." redirects here. For the music album, see 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus).

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The 20th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.

## Contents

* 1 The period of the 2nd Millennium BC
* 2 Events
* 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
* 4 Sovereign states
* 5 References

## The period of the 2nd Millennium BC

Map of the world in 2000 BC.

## Events

The pyramid ruin of Amenemhet I at Lisht. He was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt

* c. 2000 BC:
* Farmers and herders traveled south from modern-day Ethiopia and settled in what is now Kenya.
* Dawn of the Capacha Culture in modern-day Colima, Mexico.
* Humans settle in Matanchén, modern day Nayarit, Mexico
* Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
* Town of Mantua was founded.
* First of the Minoan palaces on Crete. Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.
* Bronze Age began in north Ancient China.
* Middle Jōmon period ended in Japan.
* Decline of Harappan civilization began.
* The Harappa Torso was sculpted by a member of the Indus Valley culture.[1]
* Vessel, from Asahi Mound, Toyama Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Collection of Tokyo University.
* Dogū, from Kurokoma, Yamanashi Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Tokyo National Museum.
* Stonehenge construction largely completed.
* Dawn of the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens pilings in what are now the Philippine islands.
* Horses were tamed and used for transport.
* The last woolly mammoth goes extinct on Wrangel island.
* c. 2000 BC – 1900 BC: the "Priest-king torso" was sculpted at Mohenjo-Daro, part of the Indus Valley civilization.[2]
* c. 1995 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies.
* c. 1995 BC: Ancient Egypt: Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV died. End of Eleventh Dynasty. Pharaoh Amenemhat I started to rule. Start of Twelfth Dynasty.
* c. 1985 BC: Political authority became less centralized in Ancient Egypt.
* c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC:
* Rock-cut tombs at Beni Hasan were made. Twelfth Dynasty.
* "Hippopotamus", from the tomb of Senbi (governor) (Tomb B.3) at Meir was made. Twelfth Dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
* 1974 BC: Erishum I became the thirty-third ruler of Assyria.
* 1953 BC: Senusret I launches a military campaign against Lower Nubia and conquers the region down to the Second Cataract.
* February 27, 1953 BC: A very close alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in which these planets are together in a span of 4.3 degrees.
* March 5, 1953 BC: A computer calculated alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in a new moon, and in spring season, and is believed by researchers from NASA, to be the starting event for the Chinese calendar, as they followed descriptions from a 1st Century B.C. Chinese passage "Hong Fan Zhuan" by 'Liu Xiang', to search for this astronomical event being described to have happened about 2000 BC at Pegasus constellation (Yingshi).
* c. 1942 BC: The so-called king of Leubingen (today part of Sömmerda) was buried in a large barrow within a 66-foot-wide (20 m) stone cairn inside a ring ditch.
* 1932 BC: Amorite conquest of Ur.
* c. 1928 BC – 1895 BC: "Harvest scene", tempera facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies of wall painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan. Twelfth Dynasty.
* c. 1920 BC: Jishi Gorge flood. It may have sparked the beginning of the first Chinese dynasty (Xia, Erlitou culture) [3]
* 1917 BC: Bön founder Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche is born.
* 1913 BC – 1903 BC: Egyptian-Nubian war.
* c. 1900 BC: Shalim-ahum and his son Ilu-shuma began to rule the city of Assur at around this time.

## Inventions, discoveries, introductions

* c. 2000 BC: Glass appears.
* 2000 BC: In the Old Assyrian Empire, the Sumerian cuneiform had evolved into Old Assyrian cuneiform, with many modifications to Sumerian orthography.
* c. 1900 BC: Cacao is domesticated by the Mokaya in modern-day Guatemala.[4]

## Sovereign states

## References

1. ↑ The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New Delhi, India.
2. ↑ The "Priest-king torso" is now kept at the National Museum of Pakistan, in Karachi.
3. ↑ "Massive flood may have led to China's earliest empire". 2016-08-04. https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-flood-may-have-led-chinas-earliest-empire.
4. ↑ Watson, Traci (22 January 2013). "Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America". Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-evidence-chocolate-north-america.

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