31st century BC

Millennium:	4th millennium BC
Centuries:	32nd century BC; 31st century BC; 30th century BC;
Timelines:	32nd century BC; 31st century BC; 30th century BC;
State leaders:	32nd century BC; 31st century BC; 30th century BC;
Decades:	3090s BC; 3080s BC; 3070s BC; 3060s BC; 3050s BC; 3040s BC; 3030s BC; 3020s BC; 3010s BC; 3000s BC;
Categories:	– ; –

The 31st century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3100 BC to 3001 BC.

Events[]

Spiral design altar block from the Tarxien Temples of Malta, uncovered by Sir Themistocles Zammit

Front and Back Sides of Narmer Palette, this facsimile on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Palette depicts Narmer unifying Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

3100 BC: The Anu Ziggurat and White Temple are built in Uruk. 3100 BC: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in Ancient Egypt. 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.^[1]
c. 3100 BC: First stage in the construction of Stonehenge.^[2]
c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited.^[3]
c. 3090 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country; he rules this new country from Memphis.
c. 3051 BC: The oldest currently living organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, undergoes germination in the White Mountains of California.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions[]

Drainage and sewage system in the Indus Valley
Dams, canals, stone sculptures using inclined plane and lever in Sumer and the Tigris-Euphrates Valley
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, Australia).^[4]

References[]

^ Cilia, Daniel (April 8, 2004). "Tarxien". The Megalithic temples of Malta. http://web.infinito.it/utenti/m/malta_mega_temples/tarxien/tarxien.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
^ "FACTBOX - Stonehenge hosts Summer solstice revellers". Reuters India. June 20, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
^ Trudy Ring; Noelle Watson; Paul Schellinger (28 October 2013). Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 686. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
^ Australia's top 7 Aboriginal rock art sites by Australian Geographic

[1] Cilia, Daniel (April 8, 2004). "Tarxien". The Megalithic temples of Malta. http://web.infinito.it/utenti/m/malta_mega_temples/tarxien/tarxien.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.

[2] "FACTBOX - Stonehenge hosts Summer solstice revellers". Reuters India. June 20, 2010. Retrieved December 30, 2010.

[RingWatson2013-3] Trudy Ring; Noelle Watson; Paul Schellinger (28 October 2013). Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 686. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.

[4] Australia's top 7 Aboriginal rock art sites by Australian Geographic

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