30th century BC

Events

• 3000–2600 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.
• c. 3000 BC — Cycladic civilization starts
• c. 3000 BC — Minoan civilization starts
• c. 3000 BC — Helladic period 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
• 2925–2776 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

Significant persons

• Djer, Djet, Den, Anedjib, Semerkhet — Pharaohs of the First dynasty of Egypt.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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

Popular culture

• In the t.v. show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 B.C.

Decades and years