2100–2001 BC4 events4 regions
21st century BC
In the 21st century BC: 4 events across 4 regions, including Sintashta culture, Maize cultivation attested in the American Southwest, Gold beads of Jiskairumoko.
Events
Middle East and Egypt
- Burial mounds and royal tombs of Early Dilmunc. 2050 BC – c. 1700 BC
Central and Northern Asia
- Sintashta culturec. 2040 BC – c. 1730 BC
North America
Latin America
- Gold beads of Jiskairumokobetween 2155 and 1936 BC
Still going on
Processes that began earlier and continued through this period
- Valdivia culturec. 4400 BC – c. 1600 BC · Latin America
- Caral–Supe (Norte Chico) civilizationc. 3000 BC – c. 1800 BC · Latin America
- Ahar–Banas culturec. 3000 BC – c. 1500 BC · South Asia
- Okunev culturebetween 2600 and 2501 BC – between 1700 and 1601 BC · Central and Northern Asia
- Shimao: the stone-walled city of the Shimao culturec. 2300 BC – c. 1800 BC · East Asia
- Seima-Turbino phenomenonc. 2200 BC – c. 1900 BC · Eastern Europe
- Abashevo culturec. 2200 BC – c. 1850 BC · Eastern Europe
- Oxus civilisation (Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex)c. 2250 BC – c. 1700 BC · Central and Northern Asia
- Únětice culturec. 2300 BC – c. 1600 BC · Western and Central Europe
- Argaric culture of south-eastern Iberiac. 2200 BC – c. 1550 BC · Western and Central Europe
- Hạ Long culturec. 2550 BC – c. 1050 BC · Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Saqqaq culturec. 2500 BC – c. 800 BC · North America