25th century BC c.

The 25th century BC began on January 1, 2500 B.C. C. and ended on December 31, 2401 B.C. C.. My

Events

About 2500 B.C. c.:

• c. 2500 BC: In China, Huang Di founded the legendary line of the Sanhuangwudi leaders. Between 2550 and 2905 BC the period of the five emperors is developed.
• c. 2500 BC: in Stonehenge (England) the construction of funeral tumults (stone circles) begins. It will continue for the next five centuries.
• Iberian Peninsula: first metallurgy of copper. Calcolytic on the southeast of the peninsula. Culture of Los Millares.
• 2450 BC: Eannatum military campaigns.
• Apparition of the Punics or Phoenicians, which had been established on the coast of Syria and Lebanon, from Arabia, in the fourth millennium a. C.
• The Assyrian people settle in the High Mesopotamia (north of Mesopotamia and establish a kingdom whose main cities were Assur (citizen capital during the Old Kingdom) and Nineveh (capital during the New Kingdom or Assyrian Empire).
• Beginning of the Preclassic Period in Mesoamerica from the emergence of ceramics. This fact puts an end to Prehistory in Mesoamerica.
• In Pakistan the civilization of the Indo Valley develops.
• In Sumeria, whose centre is the city of Uruk, a rich and complex civilization, Uruk culture is developed. Their officials and priests are attributed to the birth of the Cuneiform phonetic writing (one of the oldest), which would soon be adopted by other peoples.
• in Peru, domestication of cotton Gossypium barbadenseat the archaeological site of Huaca Prieta.
• Invention of ceramics in Mesoamerica, whose evidence is Pox pottery in Puerto Marqués (Mexico).
• Possible date of construction of Stonehenge.

Inventions, discoveries and introductions

• Mesoamerica: Creation of the first piece of ceramic known in the history of Mesoamerica. With this fact, the Prehistory ends and the Preclassic Period begins in that region.