30th century BC

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The 30th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC.

Events

Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period. Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends
3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign
3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.
c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. (National Geographic, June 2008).
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.Template:Citation needed
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
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.

3000 BC–2000 BC; Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in the Americas (in Ecuador).
c. 3000 BC—Sumerians establish cities.
3000 BC—Sumerians start to work in various metals.
c. 3000 BC—Knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern grains appears in Ancient China.
The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures, Shekel.

~5,000 years ago: Setting for Dawn of Empire by Sam Barone (the Eskkar Saga book 1)
3157 BC: Setting for Empire Rising by Sam Barone (the Eskkar Saga book 2)
In the TV show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 B.C.
3000 BC: A zombie outbreak in Egypt in The Zombie Survival Guide

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