23rd century BC

Short description: 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 City .
* 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.[1][2]
* 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.[3]
* 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.

## References

1. ↑ *"ICS chart containing the Quaternary and Cambrian GSSPs and new stages (v 2018/07) is now released!". http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-news-and-meetings/120-ics-chart-containing-the-quaternary-gssps-and-new-stages-v-2018-07-is-now-released.
2. ↑ *Conners, Deanna (September 18, 2018). "Welcome to the Meghalayan age". https://earthsky.org/earth/new-name-present-times-era-meghalayan.
3. ↑ Rosenberg, Matt T. "Largest Cities Through History". http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm.

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