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20th century BC

century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ183376 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 20th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.

The period of the 2nd Millennium BC

Events

c. 2000 BC:

Farmers and herders traveled south from modern-day Ethiopia and settled in what is now Kenya.

Dawn of the Capacha Culture in modern-day Colima, Mexico.

Humans settle in Matanchén, modern day Nayarit, Mexico

Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.

Town of Mantua was founded.

First of the Minoan palaces on Crete. Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.

Bronze Age began in north Ancient China.

Middle Jōmon period ended in Japan.

Decline of Harappan civilization began.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “20th century BC” as century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1901—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 20th, century and lasted can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q183376. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1901.

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This entry incorporates text from “20th century BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.