Events That Took Place During the Alleged Worldwide Flood As Told In Genesis 6-9
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The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age. It represents a period of time in which imperialism, or the desire to conquer, grew to prominence, in the city states of the Middle East, but also throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia. The civilization of Ancient Egypt rises to a peak with the Old Kingdom. World population is estimated to have doubled in the course of the millennium, to some 30 million people.
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Overview
The previous millennium had seen the emergence of advanced, urbanized civilizations, new bronze metallurgy extending the productivity of agricultural work, and highly developed ways of communication in the form of writing. In the 3rd millennium BC, the growth of these riches, both intellectually and physically, became a source of contention on a polital stage, and rulers sought the accumulation of more wealth and more power. Along with this came the first appearances of mega architecture, imperialism, organized absolutism and internal revolution.
The civilizations of Sumer and Akkad in Mesopotamia became a collection of volatile city-states in which warfare was common. Uninterrupted conflicts drained all available resources, energies and populations. In this millennium, larger empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the great Sargon of Akkad pushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. It would not be surpassed in size until Assyrian times 1500 years later.
In the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the idea of absolute ambition was further defined by conquerors. Military expeditions were sent throughout the kingdom to bring back thousands of slaves at a time. The Egyptian pyramids were constructed during this millennium and would remain the tallest and largest human constructions for thousands of years. Also in Egypt, pharaohs began to posture themselves as living Gods made of an essence different from that of other human beings. Even in Europe, which was still largely neolithic during the same period of time, the builders of megaliths were constructing giant monuments of their own. In the Near East and the Occident during the 3rd millennium BC, limits were being pushed by architects and rulers.
Towards the close of the millennium, Egypt became the stage of the first popular revolution recorded in history. After lengthy wars, the Sumerians recognized the benefits of unification into a stable form of national government and became a relatively peaceful, well-organized, complex technocratic state called the 3rd dynasty of Ur. This dynasty was later to become involved with a wave of nomadic invaders known as the Amorites, who were to play a major role in the region during the following centuries.
Events
- Syria: Foundation of the city of Mari (29th century BC)
- Iraq: Creation of the Kingdom of Elam
- Germination of the Bristlecone pine tree "Methuselah" about 2700 BC, the oldest known tree still living now
- Dynasty of Lagash in Sumeria
- Golden age of Ur in Mesopotamia. (2474–2398 BC)
- Third and Fourth dynasty of Egypt.
- Unified Indus Valley Civilisation (2600 BC)
- Indo-Europeans first invade Greece (23rd century BC)
- Megalithic, Corded Ware culture and the Beaker people flourish in Europe.
- mid- to late 3rd millennium, Hellenic immigration to the Greek mainland.
Environmental changes
- Major migration of Central Saharans into West Africa possibly due to climate change starting in 4th millennium BC.
Significant persons
- Djoser, king of Egypt, commissions the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
- Gilgamesh, fifth king of the First Dynasty of Uruk, immortalized in the world's first literary work the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 26th century BC)
- Khufu, king of Egypt, builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza
- Urukagina, king of Lagash, creates the first known judicial code. (24th century BC)
- Lugalsaggizi, king of Uruk and Umma conquers Lagash (2371–2347 BC)
- Sargon the Great, founder of the empire of Akkad and Sumeria (2371–2316 BC middle chronology)
- Ur-Nammu founder of the 3rd dynasty of Ur (2112–2095 BC middle chronology)
- The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors of China
Cultures
- Old Elamite period (ca. 2700 BC – 1600 BC)
- Corded Ware culture (also Battle-axe culture, or Single Grave culture)
- late Maikop culture
- late Vinca culture
- late Funnelbeaker culture
- Baden culture
- Globular Amphora culture
- early Beaker culture
- Yamna culture, Catacomb culture, likely loci of Indo-European Satemization.
- the Sintashta-Petrovka-Arkaim culture emerges from the Catacomb culture from about 2200 BC, likely locus of Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Pottery developed in Americas (30th century BC)
- Chinese record a comet
- Building of the Great Pyramid of Giza (26th century BC)
- Sails used on ships (20th century BC)
- First ziggurats built in Sumeria
- Near East civilizations enter Bronze Age around 3000 BC
- Oldest known medicine wheel constructed in the Americas
- Bronze and metallurgy introduced to Ireland.
- The chariot emerges in Central Asia just before 2000 BC
Cultural landmarks
- Completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza
- Completion of first phase of Stonehenge monument in England
- Era of Buena Vista pyramid / observatory in Peru
