  the 30th century bc is a century which lasted from the year 3000 bc to 2901 bc. ==events== thumb|120px|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 â 2600 bc: early harappan period continues in the indus valley * c. 3000 bc: neolithic period ends. * c. 3000 bc: djer, third pharaoh of united egypt, starts to reign. * c. 3000 bc: caral, the first city in the americas, starts to be built. * c. 3000 bc: troy is founded. * 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.memory and monuments at the hill of tara by erin mcdonald, chronika journal * 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 â 2350 bc: scarlet ware vase, from tutub (modern khafajah, iraq) is made, it is now in iraq museum, baghdad * 3000 bc â 2000 bc: world population about 30 million. * 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 jÅmon period starts in japan. * c. 2955 bc: djer, third pharaoh of egypt, dies * c. 2950 bc: first definitive use of a nebty name by egyptian first dynasty pharaoh, semerkhet. * c. 2920 bc: djet, fourth pharaoh of egypt. ==significant people== *djer, djet, merneith, den, anedjib, semerkhetâpharaohs of the first dynasty of egypt. ==inventions, discoveries, introductions== * 3000 bcâ2000 bc; hieroglyphic writing in egypt, potter's wheel in china, first pottery in the americas (in ecuador). * c. 3000 bcâsumerians establish cities. * c. 3000 bcâsumerians start to work in various metals. * c. 3000 bcâknowledge 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. ==ficti
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