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EVENTS

. He was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt]]

2000 BC — Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy .

2000 BC — Town of Mantua is presumably founded.

2000 BC — Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.

2000 BC — Farmers and Herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya .

2000 BC — Horse s are tamed and used for transport.

c. 2000 BC — Decline of Harappan Civilization starts.

c. 2000 BC - Bronze Age starts in north Ancient China .

2000– 1000 BC — Shang Dynasty in China , Olmec civilization ( Mesoamerica ).

2064 –1986 BC — Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt .

1991 BC — died. End of Eleventh Dynasty . Pharaoh Amenemhat I started to rule. Start of Twelfth Dynasty .

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 .

1953 BC , February 27 - A very close alignment of the Naked-eye Planets takes place in which these planets are together in a span of 4.3 degrees.

1932 BC — Amorite conquest of Ur .

c. 1928– 1895 BC — "Harvest scene", tempera fascimile by Nina De Garis Davies of wall painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep , Beni Hasan . Twelfth Dynasty .

1913–1903 BC — Egyptian - Nubian war.

BIRTHS

1973 BC — Reu , son of Peleg , according to the Hebrew Calendar

1941 BC — Serug , son of Reu, according to the Hebrew Calendar

1911 BC — Nahor , son of Serug, according to the Hebrew Calendar

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

2000 BC — First written accounts of Schizophrenia

1950 BC — The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumeria n Cubit as 51.72 Cm

DECADES AND YEARS