33rd century BC
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| Millennium: | 4th millennium BC |
| Centuries: | 34th century BC · 33rd century BC · 32nd century BC |
| Decades: | 3290s BC 3280s BC 3270s BC 3260s BC 3250s BC 3240s BC 3230s BC 3220s BC 3210s BC 3200s BC |
| Categories: | Births - Deaths Establishments - Disestablishments |
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[edit] Events
Image:Sahara desert.jpg
The sun shines over Saharan dunes.
- Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall to lowest levels.
- Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.
- Unification of the first Ancient Egyptian state, marking the beginning of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.
- Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes. This is possibly the oldest writing in existence.
- Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization or Sindu-Sarasvati civilization) began in Harappa.
- c. 3300 BC — Pictographs in Uruk.
- 3300 BC – 3000 BC; Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered 2003).
- 3300 BC – 3000 BC; Carved vase, called the Uruk Vase, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen 2003 and returned).
[edit] Significant persons
[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- The Bronze Age begins in the Fertile Crescent. (Roux 1980)
- Cattle introduced to the Nile valley. ('Eurasia')
- Egyptians domesticate the wild ass of North Africa. (Clutton-Brock)
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