Tuesday 31 May 2011

4000 BC to 3000 BC Continued...

c. 3100 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country;
he rules this new country from Memphis.
c. 3100 BC: Narmer, pharaoh, rules (other dates are 3150 BC–3125 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 3150 BC).
c. 3100 BC: The first temple of Tarxien is in use by the Neolithic
inhabitants of Malta.[1]
c. 3100 BC: First stage in the construction of Stonehenge.[2]
c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited.
Discovered 1850.
c. 3100 BC: Anu Ziggurat and White Temple in Uruk, Mesopotamia
(modern Warka, Iraq) are built.
c. 3100 BC: Humans develop a writing system, cuneiform script.


c. 3150 BC: Narmer (First Dynasty) started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 3125 BC: Narmer died.
Varna Necropolis: what have been claimed to be the earliest-known
worked gold artifacts are manufactured.
Malta: Construction of the Ħaġar Qim megalithic temples, featuring both
solar and lunar alignments. "Tarxien period" of megalithic temple
construction reaches its apex.
Ancient Egypt: Earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs, beginning of the
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt.
Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization.
Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton (226,796.2 tonne)
Newgrange solar oriented passage tomb.
c. 3100 BC: The earliest phase of Stonehenge construction begins.

Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.
Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing.
Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization or Sindu-Sarasvati civilization) began in Harappa.
c. 3300 BC—Pictographs in Uruk.
3300 BC – 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made.
Death of 'Ginger', the earliest known ancient Egyptian "mummy".




Life and death of Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy discovered in the Austrian/Italian Alps in 1991.
Plough is first used.

Funnelbeaker culture
Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998).
Forms of the cuneiform script (now archaic) emerge in the late Uruk period.


The 35th century BC in the Near East sees the gradual transition from the Chalcolithic
to the Early Bronze Age. Proto-writing enters transitional stage, developing towards
writing proper. Wheeled vehicles are now known beyond Mesopotamia,
having spread north of the Caucasus and to Europe.

Civilization of Sumer (?)
Ggantija, Malta
Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta
Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete (Caquetá).

First known use of tin (with bronze implements)

Beginning of the Early Minoan period on Crete

The beginning of the Mayan calendar
Ancient Egyptians Start on Pyramids

October 7, 3761 BC—The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar
September 25, 3760 BC—First day of the modern Hebrew calendar (the creation); late in AM 1.



The Post Track, an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England, is built,
ca. 3838 BC. It is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered in Northern Europe.
The Sweet Track, an ancient causeway also in the Somerset Levels, the oldest timber
trackway discovered in Northern Europe, is built in 3807 BC or 3806 BC,
tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating.
Plough in use.
5.9 kiloyear event, one of the most intense aridification events during the Holocene.

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.
c. 3000 BC: Epidamnos civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru 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.


3200 first inscriptions to the first coherent
textual sources (ca. 3200 to 2600 BC).

3400 proto literate cuneiform enters middle east

3300 Indian first ever culture formed.
Coming from middle east.

3200 Egyptian state established
Menes united Upper and Lower

3114 Mayan Calender start point…
supposed start of Earth

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