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

Contents 1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

• Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
• Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert.
• Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of Proto-writing.
• 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).
• Death of 'Ginger', the earliest known ancient Egyptian "mummy".
• Plough still in use.

Significant persons

• Krishna

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)
• c. 3250 BC – Potter's wheel in use in Ancient Near East

Decades and years

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