21st century BC : 2000 BC
(22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries)(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC)
Events:
- 2205 BC -- foundation of the Xia Dynasty in China
- 2130 - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt
- 2112 - 2095 BC -- Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu
- 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt
- 2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
- 2040 BC -- End of Tenth Dynasty[?]
- 2034 - 2004 BC -- Ur-Amorite[?] wars
- 2004 BC -- Elamite destruction of Ur
- 2000 BC -- The town of Mantua was presumedly founded
Significant persons:
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions:
- 2000 BC -- First written accounts of Schizophrenia.
- 2037 BC -- Emperor Shen Nong[?] makes first (perhaps mythical) tea drink by boiling fresh leaves
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
by William Shakespeare
'Gainst whom the world could not hold argument,
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,
If broken, then it is no fault of mine.
To break an oath, to win a paradise?
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
Such looks as none could look but beauty.html">beauty's queen.
She show'd him favours to allure his eye;
Touches so soft still conquer chastity.
Or he refus'd to take her figur'd proffer,
But smile and jest at every gentle offer:
He rose and ran away; ah, fool too froward!
O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd:
Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd.
Where all those pleasures live that art can comprehend.
well.html">Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend;
Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire:
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