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    The 3rd millennium BC spanned the years 3000 to 2001 BC. This period of time corresponds to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, characterized by the early...
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  • 3rd millennium BC in music - 2nd millennium BC in music - 1st millennium BC in music c. 3000 BC - The invention of the castanets in Early Dynastic Egypt...
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    The 5th millennium BC spanned the years (5000 BC – 4001 BC) (c. 7 ka to c. 6 ka), that is, inclusive of 5000 BC but exclusive of 4000 BC. It is impossible...
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    The 2nd millennium BC spanned the years 2000 BC to 1001 BC. In the Ancient Near East, it marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. The...
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  • The 24th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2400 BC to 2301 BC. c. 2900 BC–2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue...
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    Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs, Arameans, Assyrians...
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    The 4th millennium BC spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC. Some of the major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the Bronze...
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  • The 22nd century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2200 BC to 2101 BC. 4.2-kiloyear event: A severe aridification event that probably lasts the...
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  • Harappa ancient city built. 5th millennium BC – (5000–3000 BC) Yangshao culture in China. 6th millennium BC – (6000–2000 BC) Emergence of wooden frames in...
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    the city of Babylon, was unimportant and sparsely attested in the 3rd millennium BC. The earliest mention of Marduk comes from a fragmentary inscription...
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  • The 28th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2800 BC to 2701 BC. c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made...
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  • The 21st century BC lasted from the year 2100 BC to 2001 BC. All dates from this long ago should be regarded as either approximate or conjectural; there...
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  • lost. Early Bronze Age: 3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian). Certain...
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  • 25th century BC comprises the years from 2500 BC to 2401 BC. c. 2900–2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period. c. 2500 BC: Rice was first...
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    1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...
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  • 3000 BC(E), a year in the 3rd millennium BC 3000s AD/CE, a decade, century, millennium in the 4th millennium 3000s BC(E), a decade, century, millennium in...
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  • The 30th century BC was a time period that lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC. Before 3000 BC: An image of a deity (detail from a cong) recovered...
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  • century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC. c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer. c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive...
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    4th to 3rd millennium BC) Hvar culture (Eastern Adriatic coast, 4th to 3rd millennium BC) Windmill Hill culture (Britain, 4th millennium BC) Eneolithic...
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  • The 23rd century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia...
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  • 26th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2600 BC to 2501 BC. c. 2600–2400 BC: Early Minoan I period in Crete. c. 2551–2526 BC: Reign of Khufu...
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  • millennium BC3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium Centuries: 34th BC – 33rd BC – 32nd BC – 31st BC – 30th BC...
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    (early 4th millennium BC). The people of these cultures were nomadic pastoralists, who, according to the model, by the early 3rd millennium BC had expanded...
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  • "Bikini mosaic"). A silver coin that was found in South Arabia in the 3rd century BC shows a buxom foreign ruler with much décolletage and an elaborate coiffure...
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    Usage of the Citadel hill dates back at least to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Occupied by many civilizations over time – including the Assyrians...
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  • art. 9 BC – Ara Pacis 57 BC – Temple of Edfu 180 BC – The Pergamon Altar. 200 BC – Mounds at the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park 206 BC – The...
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  • vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards. History of Humanity: From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century B.C. UNESCO. 31 December 1996. p. 196...
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  • to articles with further details for each millennium, century and decade from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. 0s BC is not a true decade, as it contains only nine...
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    important finds from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (6th millennium BC3rd millennium BC). List of the oldest buildings in the world Old Europe (archaeology)...
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    the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period...
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