22nd century BC

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2200 BC – 2101 BC · 2 events

What happened around the world

Eastern Europe & Russia

c. 2100 BC Sintashta culture and the first chariots — Spoked wheels — the invention that changed Eurasian warfare

Middle East

c. 2100 BC Great Ziggurat of Ur — Ur-Nammu raises a tower to the moon god in a Sumerian revival

Largest states