25th century BC
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(26th century BC - 25th century BC - 24th century BC - other centuries)
(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
[edit] Events
- 2900 BC - 2334 BC -- Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
- c. 2500 BC - Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression was made. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 2494 BC - End of Fourth Dynasty, start of Fifth Dynasty in Egypt. The Pyramids began construction. Pharaoh Shepseskaf died. Pharaoh Userkaf started to reign.
- 2492 BC - Founding date of the Armenian nation.
- 2460 BC - Start of Sixth dynasty of Egypt.
- 2450 BC - End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Mesopotamia.
[edit] Significant persons
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Harappan civilisation, at its peak, covered an area of around 480,000 km². Its heartland lay in the Indus river valley in Pakistan, but settlements spread as far as the Makran coast, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, eastern Punjab, Kutch and Saurashtra. They included cities like Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Kalibangan, Dholavira, ports like Lothal, Sutkagen-dor and Sotka-koh and numerous villages as well.
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