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The 23rd century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC. ==Events== *2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia. *c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. *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 created when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal. *c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes, Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. *c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born. *c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC). *c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris. *c. 2250 BC Earliest evidence of maize cultivation in Central America. *c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, surpassing Memphis, capital of Egypt. *c. 2220 BC Scord of Brouster farmstead established in Shetland, Scotland *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. *c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe. 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「23rd century BC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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