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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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Ceremonial temple butcher knife made of flint, with the Horus name of the pharaoh Djer inscribed on its gold handle. On display at the
Royal Ontario Museum
- 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
- c. 3000 BC: Narmer Palette from Hierakonpolis, First Dynasty, is made. It is now at Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
- 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.[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. 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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[edit] 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 t.v. show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 B.C.
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