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25th century BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ191744 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 25th century BC comprises the years from 2500 BC to 2401 BC.

Events

c. 2900–2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.

c. 2500 BC: Rice was first introduced to what is now modern-day Malaysia

c. 2500 BC: N1c Y-DNA first found from Europe from Serteya II (located in modern day Smolensk Oblast in Russia).

c. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.

c. 2500 BC: Assyria is established.

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“25th century BC” enters the record as century. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 25th and century can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 25th and century.
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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 Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q191744. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “25th 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.