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c. 2220 BC: Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska) volcano erupts near present-day Sitka, Alaska. c. 2215 BC: A Guti army swept down from the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army. They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it thoroughly.
List of decades, centuries, and millennia. The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. Century. Decades. 15th millennium BC · 15,000–14,001 BC. 14th millennium BC · 14,000–13,001 BC. 13th millennium BC · 13,000–12,001 BC. 12th millennium BC · 12,000 ...
The 23rd century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC. Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, possibly the longest reigning monarch in recorded history. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity ...
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: The 23rd century BC started the first day of 2300 BC and ended the last day of 2201 BC. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. 23rd century BC by continent (4 C) 23rd century BC by country (6 C) 23rd century BC by topic (4 C) 2270s BC (1 C)
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Jul 19, 2017 · Twenty years ago, Besson blew the doors off cinema with his 23rd-century thriller about a flying-cab driver, an alien beauty, and a quest to save the world. Stars Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker,...
c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum , Baghdad . c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is made when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris ) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
