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The 29th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC. Events The grove in which the Prometheus Tree grew, with the Wheeler Peak headwall in the distance. c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.
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The 28th century BC was a century that lasted from the year...
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- 28th Century BC
The 29th century BC is a century which was from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC. Events. The grove in which the Prometheus Tree grew, with the Wheeler Peak headwall in the distance. c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
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Late 4th millennium BC: Sumerian cuneiform writing system and Egyptian hieroglyphsare first used3200 BC: Cycladic culture in Greece.3200 BC: Caral-Supe civilization begins in Peru.3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran.Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It refers to the timeframe of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Ancient history includes the recorded Greek history beginning in about 776 BC (First Olympiad). This...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity. Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: ge...
Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BC.Eastern Hemisphere in 323 BC.Eastern Hemisphere in 200 BC.Eastern Hemisphere in 100 BC.Carr, E. H. (Edward Hallett). What is History?.Thorndike 1923, Becker 1931, MacMullen 1966, MacMullen 1990, Thomas & Wick 1993, Loftus 1996.Collingwood, R. G. (1946). The Idea of History. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Dodds, E. R. (1964). The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.30th century BC: 29th century BC: 28th century BC: 27th century BC: 26th century BC: 25th century BC: 24th century BC: 23rd century BC: 22nd century BC: 21st century BC: 2nd millennium BC · 2000–1001 BC 20th century BC: 19th century BC: 18th century BC: 1790s BC: 1780s BC: 1770s BC: 1760s BC: 1750s BC: 1740s BC: 1730s BC: 1720s BC: 1710s BC ...
c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues from the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933. c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
February 8: The Algerian Civil War ends. February 27 – March 1: Riots and mass killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave 1,044 dead. March 14: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk. April 11 - 13: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt fails to overthrow president Hugo Chavez. May 20: East Timor gains independence.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
