31st century BC
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| Millennium: | 4th millennium BC |
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[edit] Events
Front and Back Sides of Narmer Palette, this facsimile on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, Canada. The Palette depicts Narmer unifying Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt
- 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).[citation needed])
- 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.[citation needed])
- c. 3100 BC: Anu Ziggurat and White Temple in Uruk, Mesopotamia (modern Warka, Iraq) are built.[citation needed])
- c. 3100 BC: Humans develop a writing system, cuneiform script.
[edit] Significant people
- Wazner, king Serkhet last pre-dynastic pharaohs of ancient ancient Egypt
- Narmer, founder of the first dynasty of Egypt
- Hor-Aha, Djer, the second and third pharaohs of the first dynasty of Egypt
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Chinese ideograms
- Drainage and sewage system in the Indus Valley Civilization
- Dams, canals, stone sculptures using inclined plane and lever in Sumer
- Copper was in use, both as tools and weapons
- c. 3100 BC – Invention of writing in Ancient Near East
[edit] References
- ^ Cilia, Daniel (April 8, 2004). "Tarxien". The Megalithic temples of Malta. http://web.infinito.it/utenti/m/malta_mega_temples/tarxien/tarxien.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- ^ "FACTBOX - Stonehenge hosts Summer solstice revellers". Reuters India. June 20, 2010. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49464120100620. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
[edit] Decades and years
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