The 20th century BC is 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 settle 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 – Torso, from Harappa , Indus Valley Civilization, was made. It is now kept at National Museum , New Delhi .
c. 2000 BC-1900 BC – Torso of a "priest-king", from Mohenjo-Daro , Indus Valley civilization , was made. It is now kept at National Museum of Pakistan , Karachi .
2000 BC: possible date when, according to religious scriptures, Abraham founded Judaism.
2040 BC – 1556 BC : Xia Dynasty in China , Olmec civilization (Mesoamerica ).
2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt .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 .
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 .
5c. 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 City .
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 , Beni Hasan . Twelfth Dynasty .
1913 BC – 1903 BC: Egyptian -Nubian war.
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