30th century BC

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	31st century BC · 30th century BC · 29th century BC
Decades:	2990s BC 2980s BC 2970s BC 2960s BC 2950s BC 2940s BC 2930s BC 2920s BC 2910s BC 2900s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

The 30th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC.

Events

Stele bearing the name of Djet

• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.

Significant people

• Djer, Djet, Merneith, 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.
• c. 3000 BC—Knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern grains appears in Ancient China.
• 3000 BC-2000 BC - Settled villages are widespread in Mesoamerica.
• The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures, Shekel.

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 TV show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 BC.
• 3000 BC: A zombie outbreak in Egypt in The Zombie Survival Guide