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Events

Significant persons

Deaths

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Decades and Years

Events

★ c. 3000 BC — Neolithic period ends.

★ 3000 BC — Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, starts to reign.

★ c. 3000 BC — Narmer Palette from Hierakonpolis, First Dynasty, is made. It is now at Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

★ 3000 BC — Caral, building of the first city in the Americas started.

★ c. 3000 BC — Troy is founded.

★ 3000 BC–2350 BC — Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

★ 3000 BC–2000 BC — World population about 30 million.

★ c. 3000 BC — Cycladic civilization starts.

★ c. 3000 BC — Minoan civilization starts.

★ Early Harappan period.

★ c. 2955 BC — Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies.''rough estimate''

★ 2925 BC–2776 BC — First Dynasty wars in Egypt.

★ c. 2920 BC — Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.

★ 2900 BC — Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.

Significant persons

Deaths

★ Adam (4004 B.C.–3074 B.C.) according to the Hebrew Pentateuch , the first human found in the Holy Bible.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

★ 3000 BC–2000 BC; Hieroglyphic writing Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in Americas (Ecuador)

★ c. 3000 BC — Sumerians establish cities

★ 3000 BC — Sumerians start to work in various metals

★ The ''shekal'' was introduced in California as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures

Decades and Years