30th century BC

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[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.