20th century BC

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

Events

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

2000 BC: Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
2000 BC: Town of Mantua was presumably founded.
2000 BC: Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
2000 BC: Farmers and herders traveled south from Ethiopia and settled in Kenya.
2000 BC: Horses were tamed and used for transport.
c. 2000 BC: First of the Minoan palaces on Crete.
c. 2000 BC: Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.
c. 2000 BC: Decline of Harappan civilization began.
c. 2000 BC: Bronze Age began in north Ancient China.
c. 2000 BC: the Harappa Torso was sculpted by a member of the Indus Valley culture.^[1]
c. 2000 BC: Middle Jōmon period ended in Japan.
c. 2000 BC: Vessel, from Asahi Mound, Toyama Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Collection of Tokyo University.
c. 2000 BC: Dogū, from Kurokoma, Yamanashi Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Tokyo National Museum.
c. 2000 BC - 1900 BC: the "Priest-king torso" was sculpted at Mohenjo-Daro, part of the Indus Valley civilization.^[2]
c. 2000 BC - The last wooly mammoth goes extinct on Wrangel island.
c. 1995 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies.
1991 BC: 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.
c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC: "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.
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.
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.
1913 BC – 1903 BC: Egyptian-Nubian war.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

c. 2000 BC – Glass appears.
1950 BC—The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm.^{[citation needed]}
c. 1900 BC - Cacao is domesticated by the Mokaya in Guatemala.^[3]

Sovereign states

See: List of sovereign states in the 20th century BC.

References

^ The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New Delhi, India.
^ The "Priest-king torso" is now kept at the National Museum of Pakistan, in Karachi.
^ Watson, Traci (22 January 2013). "Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America". Science. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[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.

[sciencenow-3] Watson, Traci (22 January 2013). "Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America". Science. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

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