2500 BC

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The ruined pyramid of Userkaf at Saqqara. He was the founder of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt

c. 2900 BC–2334 BC — Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2500 BC — Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.
c. 2500 BC — Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2500 BC — Excavation and development of the Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni at Paola, Malta, a subterranean templex complex subsequently used as a necropolis.
c. 2500 BC — Valley Temple of Khafra, Giza, is built.
c. 2500 BC - People in Peru relies on fish and mussels for food.
c. 2494 BC — End of Fourth Dynasty, start of Fifth Dynasty in Egypt. The Pyramids begin construction.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Sculptors at work", relief from Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty. It is now at Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Seated Scribe" from tomb of vizier Kai, Saqqara, sculpture, Fifth dynasty of Egypt is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
2492 BC — Traditional date for the legendary foundation of the Armenian nation (see Haik).
c. 2450 BC — End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Sumer.
c. 2450 BC — Kish is lost to Khamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains; Elamites from Awan occupy parts of Sumer. (Roux 1980)
c. 2410 BC — By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Semitic infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia begins. (1968 RD Almanac)
Megalithic culture comes to Ireland from Spain, spreading also through Europe and the western Mediterranean. (1968 RD Almanac)
Celts begin invading Europe from the east. (1968 RD Almanac)
Earliest signs of Battle Axe Culture from the Caucasus. (Encyc. Americana)
Southeastern Spain is settled from the Mediterranean, by people using Predynastic Egyptian-style pottery. (Encyc. Americana)
Italy begins to be settled by Illyrians and others. (1968 RD Almanac)
Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. (Encyc. Americana)

Significant persons

2491 — Mythical Chinese Emperor Huang-Ti (Hirth)
2490 — Menkaura is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2475 — Shepseskaf is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2465 — Fifth dynasty of Egypt; Userkaf is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2458 — Sahure is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2446 — Neferirkare Kakai is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2426 — Shepseskare Isi is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
c. 2425 — Death of Eannatum of Lagash; succeeded by his nephew, Entemena, whose ally, Lugal-kinishe-dudu, unites Uruk and Ur (Roux 1980)
2419 — Ra'neferef is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
2416 — Nyuserre Ini is Pharaoh (Atlas of Egypt 1989)

Deaths

Mahalalel, son of Kenan, (3365 BC–2470 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar

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. They used irrigation to farm and constructed cities. The two main cities had sewage systems, bronze, trade tokens (early coins), and hieroglyphs. There were even baths at one of the villages, besides the great baths of brick in each city. Geometry of shrines and altars tends to identify these with the cities of the Yajur Veda: they might easily be a thousand years older than this conservative date.
Cycladic marble figures depict the use of both the musical pipe and the kithara form of lyre. (Archaeology of the Olympics 1988)
Earliest surviving ski is left in a peat bog at Hoting, Sweden, about this time. (Encyc. Americana)
Sumerians use domestic asses on war chariots (Standard of Ur), not onagers as early interpreters claimed. (Clutton-Brock)
Agriculture at Prieta Huaca includes cotton and bottle-gourds. (Bailey 1973)

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Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. Sumer in southern Mesopotamia is commonly regarded as the world's earliest civilization.
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Ancient Mesopotamia

Euphrates Tigris
Cities / Empires
Sumer: Uruk ' Ur ' Eridu
Kish ' Lagash ' Nippur
Akkadian Empire: Akkad
Babylon ' Isin ' Susa
Assyria: Assur Nineveh
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Established 1872
Location 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York
Visitor figures 4 million/year
Director Philippe de Montebello
Website www.metmuseum.
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State of New York

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Nickname(s): The Empire State
Motto(s): Excelsior!

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Not to be confused with Paoula.

Paola may refer to:

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Paola, California, a place in California, United States
Paola, Florida, a place in Florida, United States
Paola, Italy, a place in Italy

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Anthem
L-Innu Malti
("The Maltese Anthem")

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necropolis (plural: necropolises or necropoleis) is a large cemetery or burial place (from Greek nekropolis "city of the dead"). Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial
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Giza or Gizah (Arabic, الجيزة, transliterated al-Gīzah; pronounced in the Cairene dialect of Egyptian Arabic eg-Gīza;
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Anthem
Somos libres, seámoslo siempre (Spanish)
"We are free, may we always be so"
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Dynasties of Pharaohs
in Ancient Egypt
Predynastic Egypt
Protodynastic Period
Early Dynastic Period
1st 2nd
Old Kingdom
3rd 4th 5th 6th
First Intermediate Period
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11th (Thebes only)

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Saqqara or Sakkara, Saqqarah (Arabic: سقارة) is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, featuring the world's oldest standing step pyramid ().
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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms.
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Cairo
القـــاهـــر?

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Seal
Egypt: Site of Cairo (top center)
Coordinates:
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Gumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah

Arab Republic of Egypt

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A Vizier (Persian,وزير - wazīr) (sometimes also spelled Vazir, Vizir, Vasir, Wazir, Vesir, or Vezir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages), literally "burden-bearer" or "helper", is a term,
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Kai (IPA pronunciation: kaI) is usually a male given name, however in later years, it has been more common among females. It is of Welsh and Scandinavian origin, and its meaning is "keeper of the keys; earth". Variant of Kay.
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sculpture is a man-made three-dimensional object intended for special recognition as art. A person that creates sculptures is called a sculptor.

Materials of sculpture through history

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Musée du Louvre

Established 1793
Location Palais Royal, Musée du Louvre,
75001 Paris, France
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Ville de Paris

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(Latin: "Tossed by the waves, she does not sink")

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro.
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8 to 10 million^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Armenia
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Hayk (Հայկ, also transliterated as Haik) is the legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation. His story is told in the History attributed to Moses of Chorene (5th to 7th century).
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Kish may refer to:

Geography

Kish Island, an Iranian island and city in the Persian Gulf
Kish (Sumer), an ancient city in Sumer, now in Iraq
Kish (river), a river in Azerbaijan
Kish Bank, a shallow in the Irish Sea.

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Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistan/كوردستان, literally meaning "the land of Kurds";^[3]) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds.
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BCE Zayandeh River Civilization Sialk civilization 7500–1000 Jiroft civilization (Aratta) Proto-Elamite civilization Bactria-Margiana Complex Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kingdom of Mannai Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire Seleucid Empire Greco-Bactrian
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2500 BC

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