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Events

Significant persons

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Decades and Years

Events

★ Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall to lowest levels.

★ Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.

★ Unification of the first Ancient Egyptian state, marking the beginning of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.

★ Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes. This is possibly the oldest writing in existence.

★ 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. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered 2003).

★ 3300 BC – 3000 BC; Carved vase, called the Uruk Vase, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen 2003 and returned).

Significant persons

★ Jared, son of Mahalalel, (3300 BC–2338 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

★ The Bronze Age begins in the Fertile Crescent. (Roux 1980)

★ Cattle introduced to the Nile valley. ('Eurasia')

★ Egyptians domesticate the wild ass of North Africa. (Clutton-Brock)

Decades and Years

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