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(4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) (5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC - other millennia) // Events Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th century BC); Sumerian hegemony in Mesopotamia, with the invention of writing, base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex hydrology, the sailboat, the wheel, and the potters wheel, 4000... (4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – other millennia) // Events The 3rd millennium BC represents the beginning of factual history, since it is the first time we do have real names to name and detailed stories to tell. ... (3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – other millennia) // Events To grasp the spirit of the 2nd millennium BC, we must divide it in two parts, for there is a period of change around its middle so important that it creates two separate sub-millennia. First half (2000...

Events

• 2900 - 2334 BC – Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
• 2600 BC – The Harappan civilization rises to become a powerful civilization.
• 2550 BC – Estimated date of completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
• 2500 BC – The legendary line of Sanhuangwudi rulers of China is founded by Huang Di (approximate date).
• 2500 BC – the construction of the stone circle at Stonehenge begins and continues for the next five hundred years.

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Significant people

• Pharaoh Khufu (aka Cheops) of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty ruled from around 2589 to 2566 BC.

Khufus Cartouche Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts Old Kingdom. ... Khufus Cartouche Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts Old Kingdom. ... The Fourth dynasty of Egypt was the second of the four dynasties considered forming the Old Kingdom. ... (27th century BC - 26th century BC - 25th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events 2900 - 2334 BC – Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period. ...

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 2575 BC – A foot defined as 26.45 cm by Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash.
• Rock drawings at Rødøy in Norway show the use of skis.
• Bactrian Camel and Dromedary are domesticated