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21st century BCE - Definition and Overview
Related Words: G, Aeon, Age, Ages, Bicentennial, Buck, Cartwheel, Cent, Centenarian, Centennial, Centigram, Centimeter, Centipede

(22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries)

(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)

Events

  • 2130 - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt
  • 2112 - 2095 BC -- Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu
  • 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt
  • 2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
  • 2040 BC -- End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt, start of Eleventh Dynasty
  • 2034 - 2004 BC -- Ur-Amorite wars
  • 2004 BC -- Elamite destruction of Ur
  • 2000 BC -- The town of Mantua was presumedly founded

Significant persons

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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

Example Usage of century
Jessemac74: Attending a lecture on "Islam in the 21st century" @SJCNY featuring Imam Feisal. Impressive talk.
baronjames: @amanda___c Wow! I feel like such an amateur... I only proposed in 9th century Viking outfit with a love poem carved in Futhark Runes.
Sumayyah1: You know whose books are scary? Margaret Atwood. She's like George Orwell of the 21st century.
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