History:29th century BC
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The 29th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.
Events
- c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.[1]
- 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.
- 2900 BC-First Mariote Kingdom founded.
- 2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
- 2890 BC – Akkadian language names are recorded from about this time period.
- 2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree, previously thought to be the world's oldest living organism until it was cut down in 1964 AD.
- 2879 BC: Hùng Vương Kinh Dương Vương established the Hồng Bàng dynasty in Vietnam (then known as Xích Quỷ).[2]
- c. 2874 BC: The 365-day calendar year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.[3]
- 2863 BC: Egyptian 2nd Dynasty Prince Raneb born around this year in history.
- 2860 BC: Saqqara Tomb A construction started.
- 2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in China.
- 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the oldest living tree and organism on earth as of 2020 the Methuselah Tree, the second-oldest known organism. Sprouting in what would become Inyo County, California .
- 2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.[4][5]
- Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer[6]
Architecture
- 29th century BC in architecture
References
- ↑ Marc Van De Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 - 323 BC (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), p. 39
- ↑ Pelley, Patricia M. (2002). Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. Duke University Press. pp. 51.
- ↑ "Viii Science and Technology". http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb93/aeb93_8.html.
- ↑ "Cambridge Conference Correspondence". http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc022500.html.
- ↑ "Ancient Crash, Epic Wave". The New York Times. 14 November 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html.
- ↑ "About Iraq Editorial". http://www.iraqdirectory.com/en/aboutiraq.asp.
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