30th century BC

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

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	31st century BC 30th century BC 29th century BC
Timelines:	31st century BC 30th century BC 29th century BC
State leaders:	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

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.
• c. 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.
• c. 3000 BC: Camel are domesticated in Egypt.
• c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at Duma na nGiall on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland.[1]
• c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.[2]
• c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
• c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts.
• c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru starts.
• c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
• c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
• c. 2999 BC: Jawa,_Jordan Founded
• c. 2975 BC: Djer, third pharaoh of Egypt, dies
• c. 2975 BC: Djet, fourth pharaoh of Egypt.
• c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
• c. 2920 BC: Troy is founded.

Significant people

• Djer, Nakhtneith, Djet, Merneith, Herneith, Den, Anedjib, Semerkhet—Pharaohs of the First dynasty of Egypt.
• Ötzi, a man whose mummified remains were found in the Ötztal Alps

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.
• c. 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.
• The Sydney rock engravings date from around 3000 BC (Sydney, Australia).[3]

Fiction

• 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
• 3000 BC: The birth of possibly the first mutant in X-Men, En Sabah Nur.

References

1. Memory and Monuments at the Hill of Tara by Erin McDonald, Chronika Journal
2. National Geographic, June 2008
3. Australia's top 7 Aboriginal rock art sites by Australian Geographic