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The 3rd millennium BC included the following key events: c. 3000 BC: Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. c. 3000 BC: First evidence of gold being used in the Middle East. c. 3000 BC: Nubian A-Group, Ta-Seeti "kingdom" came to an end, possibly due to raids by Egypt.
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus. New York : New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Yale University Press. Our civilization is rooted in the forms and innovations of societies that flourished in the distant lands of Western Asia more than six thousand years ago.
During the third millennium B.C., diverse populations inhabited the vast areas stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River and from Central Asia to the Gulf. Among the most intriguing of these peoples are those who dwelt in the cities and countryside of Sumer (southern Mesopotamia).
By the 3rd millennium bce the regional cultures in the areas discussed above showed increased signs of interaction and even convergence. That they are frequently referred to as varieties of the Longshan culture (c. 2500–2000 bce ) of east-central Shandong—characterized by its lustrous eggshell-thin black ware—suggests the degree to which ...
Oct 25, 2017 · The period of the 3rd millennium BCE saw an increase in social interaction between small regional units and the eventual development of settlements with defined social or political hierarchies.
- Mark Cartwright
Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 BCE in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium BCE. About 2000 BCE, Sumerian was replaced as a spoken language by Semitic Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian).
The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age . This was a period of time in which the desire to conquer was common. Expansion occurred throughout the Middle East and throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia. The civilization of Ancient Egypt rose to a peak with the Old Kingdom.
