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Events

Egypt

• Reigns of Niouserrê (- 2450), Menkaouhor, Djedkarê Isési, Ounas
• Forwarding in the Country of Pount directed by the Baourded treasurer under the reign of Isesi (incense, gold, electrum, ivory, ebony, stones invaluable, skins of panthers, giraffes, baboons, Pygmies).
• the end of seems marked by climatic modifications which involve a slip of the populations of the areas bordering towards the valley on the Nile (reliefs of famished Bedouins of the roadway of the temple of Ounas, last king of Ve dynasty).
• the king Niouserrê builds the solar temple of Abou Gourob, close to Memphis.
• Pyramid of Ounas to Saqqarah.

• Inscription of the Texts of the Pyramids, under Ounas.

• “Teaching” or “Wisdom” of Ptahhotep, defining an ethics where social integration is marked like fundamental value. To act as conformity with the Maât (“truth-justice”) supposes, with the hierarchical respect and the service of the king, the attention with the other, “vertical solidarity” (of powerful towards the weak one), in short to privilege the social harmony, founded on an individual attitude of reserve and measurement giving to the reason the priority on the instinct, and refusing the scandalmongering, the desire, anger, destroying defects of the social harmony, element of the universal order.

Mesopotamy

• the troops of Hamazi, led by their Hatanish chief, cross the Tigre and seize Kish where they will remain six years before the king of Akshak does not take it again.
• Palate presargonic of Husband (- 2450, - 2300).
• Files of the temple of Bawa to Lagash (towards -2450).
• -2445: Reigns of Elili then of Balili, kings of Ur.

Significant characters

• Ptahhotep, vizier d' Isesi.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions