2916_BC

2916 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

Contents

1 Events

2 Significant persons

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

4 Popular culture

5 Decades and years

Events

Ceremonial temple butcher knife made of flint, with the Horus name of the pharaoh Djer inscribed on its gold handle. On display at the Royal Ontario Museum

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.^{citation needed}
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 succesfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 B.C.

Decades and years

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Decades and years

30th century BC
32nd century BC←31st century BC← ↔ →29th century BC→28th century BC

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Centuries and millennia

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