30th century BC
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The 30th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC.
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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.
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Significant persons
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Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 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.
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Fiction
- ~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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