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The 20th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC. ==Events== * 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 settled 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: the Harappa Torso was sculpted by a member of the Indus Valley culture.〔The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New Delhi, India.〕 * 2000 BC: suggested date when, according to religious scriptures, Abraham founded Judaism. * 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. * c. 2000 BC - 1900 BC: the "Priest-king torso" was sculpted at Mohenjo-Daro, part of the Indus Valley civilization.〔 The "Priest-king torso" is now kept at the National Museum of Pakistan, in Karachi.〕 * c. 1995 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies. * 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. *c. 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. *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 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 II, Beni Hasan. Twelfth Dynasty. *1913 BC – 1903 BC: Egyptian-Nubian war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「20th century BC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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