- c. 2055 BCEAfrica
Mentuhotep II reunifies Egypt
Mentuhotep II of Thebes defeats the rival Heracleopolitan kings and reunites Egypt, inaugurating the Middle Kingdom.
Era: The Pharaonic Kingdoms
Sources: Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Politics & PowerThe 3rd millennium BCE
Politics & Power in the 3rd millennium BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 3rd millennium BCE, tagged politics and power — dynasties, constitutions, revolutions and changes of regime. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- Earliest
- 2055 BCE
- Latest
- 2055 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.