21st century BC

2000 B.C. redirects here. For the Canibus album, see 2000 B.C. (album)

Centuries:	22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC
Decades:	2090s BC 2080s 2070s 2060s 2050s 2040s 2030s 2020s 2010s 2000s BC

[edit] Events

c. 2100 BC - 2050 BC; Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
2091 BC — beginning of the mythological Patriarchal Age is traditionally set in this year.
2080 BC — Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2071 BC — Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
2064 BC – 1986 BC — Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2049 BC — Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
c. 2040 BC - End of First intermediate period in Ancient Egypt. Start of Middle Kingdom. Eleventh - 14th Dynasties.
2040 BC — Pharaoh Merykare died. End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt. Pharaoh Mentuhotep II started to rule. Start of Eleventh Dynasty.
2034 BC – 2004 BC — Ur-Amorite wars.
c. 2009 BC - 1997 BC: "Model of a house and garden, from Thebes". 11th dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2009 BC - 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built. Eleventh Dynasty.
2004 BC — Elamite destruction of Ur.
2000 BC — Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
2000 BC — The town of Mantua was presumedly founded.
2000 BC — Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
2000 BC — Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.

Ur-Nammu, 3rd dynasty of Ur
Shulgi of Urim
Abraham (perhaps, other datings include 19th century BC, 17th century BC, 16th Century BC, and 15th Century BC)
According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th avatar of Vishnu

2037 BC — Emperor Shen Nong makes first (perhaps mythical) tea drink by boiling fresh leaves.
2000 BC — First written accounts of Schizophrenia.