The Xia Dynasty becomes first government and first dynasty in China
The Xia Dynasty (c. 2070-1600 B.C.E.) was the first government to emerge in ancient China and became the first to adhere to the policy of dynastic succession.
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The Poverty Point culture in modern-day southern United States flourishes
Poverty Point culture is an archaeological culture that corresponds to an ancient group of indigenous peoples who inhabited the area of the lower Mississippi Valley and surrounding Gulf coast from about 2200 B.C.E. – 700 B.C.E.
Members of Akkadian Empire make perhaps first-ever written record of composting food waste for agriculture
Though the Akkadians may have been the first to record the use of compost, the practice likely began long before the advent of writing.
Sargon the Great forms the world’s first empire in Mesopotamia, the Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire eventually also stretched across modern day Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon.
Kerma culture flourishes in modern-day Sudan
The Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. It flourished from around 2500 B.C.E. to 1500 B.C.E. in ancient Nubia, located in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan.
Kubaba of Sumeria becomes humanity’s first female ruler
The Sumerian King List is unsurprisingly filled with the names of men: Alulim, Hadanish, Zizi, and many others. But alongside its male monarchs, the world’s first known civilization also produced a woman who is often considered the first female monarch: Kubaba, who brewed and sold beer in the ancient city of Kish in Mesopotamia. However, some scholars question Kubaba’s historicity, and it is quite possible that there were earlier female rulers we have no record of.
The Kesh Temple Hymn – oldest known piece of literature – is written in Sumeria
Two of the oldest known literary works are the “Kesh Temple Hymn” and the “Instructions of Shuruppak,” both of which exist in written versions dating to around 2500 B.C.E.
The Ancient Egyptians invent boat docks
The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor dating from 2500 B.C.E. located on the Red Sea coast.
Use of the now ubiquitous spice black pepper becomes widespread, beginning in modern-day India
Black pepper is native to Kerala in Southwestern India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropica regions.
The Hồng Bàng dynasty flourishes in modern-day Vietnam
The Hồng Bàng dynasty was a legendary, semimythical period in Vietnamese history spanning from the political union in 2879 B.C.E. of many tribes of the northern Red River Valley to the conquest by An Dương Vương in 258 B.C.E.