{{Short description|One hundred years, from 2000 BC to 1901 BC}} {{Redirect|2000 B.C.|the music album|2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus)}} {{Centurybox|-20}}The '''20th century BC''' was a century that lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.
==The period of the 2nd Millennium BC==
thumb|centre|550px|Map of the world in 2000 BC.
==Events== [[Image:AmenemhetIPyramid.jpg|thumb|400px|The pyramid ruin of Amenemhet I at Lisht. He was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt]] <!-- Note that per WP:DATE, years before 1700 BC should link to the relevant century. Thus wikifying any of these years will redirect to this page. Only wikify links to other centuries. --> * 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.<ref>The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New Delhi, India.</ref> ** 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.<ref>The "Priest-king torso" is now kept at the National Museum of Pakistan, in Karachi.</ref> * 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 {{convert|66|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} 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) <ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-flood-may-have-led-chinas-earliest-empire | title=Massive flood may have led to China's earliest empire| date=2016-08-04}}</ref> *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.<ref name="sciencenow">{{cite news | url = https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-evidence-chocolate-north-america | first = Traci | last = Watson | title = Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America | date = 22 January 2013 | work = Science | access-date = 3 March 2014}}</ref>
==Sovereign states== {{Main|List of sovereign states in the 20th century BC}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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