Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 2500 B.C. through 2001 B.C.
- -2500 to -2001
- Settlement of Aramean nomads from Euphrates area and of Semitic
Canaanite tribes in Palestine
- Yao dynasty in China (to -2300)
- Lugalzaggisi, king of Uruk, defeats the Lagash empire and becomes
"King of the Countries" (-2400 to -2350)
- Sargon, first king of Akkadian dynasty, defeats Lugalzaggisi,
creates a vast Semitic empire in Mesopotamia, and calls himself
"King of the Four Quarters" (-2350 to -2100)
- Shun dynasty in China (-2300 to -2205)
- Naramsin, ruler of Babylon (-2270 to -2233)
- First of the Hsai dynasties in China (-2200 to -1760)
- Egypt rules by the Hyksos, "Shepherd Kings" (-2200 to -1700)
- Dynasty of Pharaohs in Egypt (-2200 to -525)
- End of Old Kingdom and beginning of Middle Kingdom of Egypt,
11th and 12th dynasties (-1200 to -1700)
- Abraham leaves Ur in Chaldea (c. -2100)
- Disappearance of city of Agade; end of Akkadian civilization
in Mesopotamia
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