{{Short description|One hundred years, from 2300 BC to 2201 BC}} {{Centurybox|-23}} The '''23rd century BC''' was a century that lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.
==Events== [[Image:PepiIIPyramid.jpg|thumb|250px|Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, possibly the longest-reigning monarch in recorded history]] <!-- 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. -->
*2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia. *c. 2300 BC: Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan) flourishing in modern-day eastern Pakistan - western India. *c. 2300 BC: Metals start to be used in Northern Europe. *c. 2300 BC: The 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 the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. *c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: The Disc of Enheduanna, from Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in the 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 Neferkare's 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. *c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born. *c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: The Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa (modern Shush, Iran), was made. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. *c. 2251 BC: The beginning of the Meghalayan Stage, the last of the three stages of the Holocene.<ref>*{{cite web|url=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|title=ICS chart containing the Quaternary and Cambrian GSSPs and new stages (v 2018/07) is now released!|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>*{{cite web|url=https://earthsky.org/earth/new-name-present-times-era-meghalayan|title=Welcome to the Meghalayan age|last=Conners|first=Deanna|date=September 18, 2018|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> *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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm|title=Largest Cities Through History|last=Rosenberg|first=Matt T|access-date=2009-11-11|archive-date=2016-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818124242/http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> *c. 2220 BC: Scord of Brouster farmstead established in the Shetland islands *c. 2220 BC: Mount Edgecumbe 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.
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