3rd Millennium BC - Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• Pottery develops in Americas (30th century BC).
• c. 3000 BC—Potter's wheel appears in Mesopotamia.
• 2900 BC—2400 BC; Sumerians invent phonogram (linguistics).
• c. 2300 BC—Metals are used in Northern Europe.
• 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 Sumer.
• Near East civilizations enter Bronze Age around 3000 BC.
• Oldest known medicine wheel constructed in the Americas.
• Bronze and metallurgy introduced to Ireland.
• Domestication of the horse with the coming of Indo-Europeans in central Eurasia.
• The chariot emerges in Central Asia Indo-Europeans just before 2000 BC.
• The camel (dromedary) domesticated (though widespread use took until mid-to-late 2nd millennium BC).
• Indoor plumbing and sewage in the Indus Valley Civilization.
• Sumerian medicine discovers the healing qualities of mineral springs
• Weaving loom known in Europe
• Sumerian numerical system based on multiples of 6 and 12
• Egyptians discover use of papyrus
• Bow and arrow used in warfare
• Austronesian peoples have developed lanteen sail, and the out-rigger as well as extensive development of celestial navigation systems
• Oldest known evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke, as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at a burial site in present-day Romania.