The 31st century BC was a
century
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A centennial or ...
that lasted from the year 3100 BC to 3001 BC.
Events
*c. 3100 BC:
Polo
Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...
( mni,
Sagol Kangjei) was first played in
Manipur state.
*c. 3100 BC?: The Anu Ziggurat and White Temple are built in
Uruk.
*c. 3100 BC?: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in
Ancient Egypt.
*c. 3100 BC?: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period starts in Ancient Egypt.
*c. 3100 BC?: The first
temple of Tarxien is in use by the
Neolithic inhabitants of
Malta.
*c. 3100 BC?: First stage in the construction of
Stonehenge
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.
*c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC:
Skara Brae,
Orkney Islands
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,
Scotland is inhabited.
*c. 3090 BC:
Narmer
Narmer ( egy, Wiktionary:nꜥr-mr, nꜥr-mr, meaning "painful catfish," "stinging catfish," "harsh catfish," or "fierce catfish;" ) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period (Egypt), Early Dynastic Period. He was the successor ...
(Menes) unifies
Upper and
Lower Egypt
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into one country; he rules this new country from
Memphis.
*c. 3051 BC: The
oldest currently living organism, a
Great Basin bristlecone pine
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, undergoes germination in the
White Mountains of California
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.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
*
Drainage and
sewage
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system in the
Indus Valley
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*
Dams,
canals,
stone sculpture
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s using
inclined plane and
lever in
Sumer
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and the
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...
*
Copper was in use, both as tools and weapons
*
Senet is one of the oldest known board games in the world.
* c. 3100 BC – Invention of
writing in
Mesopotamia and
Egypt
*The
Sydney rock engravings date to around 3000 BC (
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
,
Australia
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).
Australia's top 7 Aboriginal rock art sites by Australian Geographic
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