30th century BC

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Centuries:		31st century BC -	30th century BC -	29th century BC
Millennia:		4th millennium BC -	3rd millennium BC -	2nd millennium BC

1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Deaths
4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

[edit] 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 ended.
3000 BC - Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, starts to reign.
3000 BC - Caral, building of the first city in the Americas started.
c. 3000 BC - Troy1 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 millions.^{[citation needed]}
Early Harappan period.
2999 BC - Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies.
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.

[edit] Significant persons

[edit] Deaths

Adam (3760 BC - 2930 BC Hebrew Calendar), the first human according to the Hebrew Bible.

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

3000 BC - 2000 BC; Hieroglyphic writing Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in Americas (Ecuador).
c. 3000 BC - Sumerians invent the Wheel.
c. 3000 BC - Sumerians establish cities.
3000 BC - Sumerians started to work in various metals.
The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit, see ancient weights and measures.

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