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c. 2100–1800 BC – The Sintashta culture emerges in the northern Eurasian Steppe. c. 2070 BC – Yu the Great establishes the Xia dynasty in China. c. 2050 BC – The beginning of the Middle Kerma culture in Upper Nubia. Late spring 2049 BC – Seahenge is built in Britain.
7000 B.C. A great earthquake destroys the city of Jericho. 6,500 B.C. The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land. 6000 B.C.. First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East. 5,500 B.C. First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region. 4,500 B.C. Humans learn how to use the plow.
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2100 bce Ziggurats in use in Sumerian cities of Eridu , Uruk , Ur , Nippur and elsewhere The Reign of Utu-Hegal at Uruk in Sumer and creation of Sumerian King List.
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c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.2091 BC: Beginning of the Patriarchal Agewas traditionally set in this year.2080 BC: Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.2080 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt ended. Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt.Ur-Nammu, 3rd dynasty of UrShulgi of UrimAccording to Abrahamic religious tradition, the era of the Patriarch Abraham(however, other dates include 19th century BC, and/or 17th century through 15th century BC)According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th Avatar of Vishnu2100 BC—Earliest law code in Mesopotamia, the Code of Ur-Nammu2037 BC—Emperor Shen Nong makes first (perhaps mythical) teadrink by boiling fresh leavesThe Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2130 B.C.) was an incredibly dynamic period of Egyptian history. While the origin of many concepts, practices, and monuments can be traced to earlier periods, it was during the Old Kingdom that they developed into the forms that would characterize and influence the rest of pharaonic history.
This major crisis, lasting about a century from 2200 to 2100 BC, included a drop in the Dead Sea water level of nearly 100 meters and the drying up of the southern basin, a rise of oceanic levels of 1.5 meters, and a decrease in olive pollen and a rise in oak and pistachio pollen around the Sea of Galilee, indicating a decline in olive ...
In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700 –2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, who perfected the art of pyramid-building, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who constructed the pyramids at Giza.
