30TH CENTURY BC

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Events
Significant persons
Deaths
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and Years

Events


Ceremonial temple butcher knife made of flint, with the Horus name of the pharaoh Djer inscribed on its gold handle. On display at the at the Royal Ontario Museum


★ 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



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