33rd century BC

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Millennium: 4th millennium BC
Centuries:
Timelines:
  • 34th century BC
  • 33rd century BC
  • 32nd century BC
State leaders:
  • 34th century BC
  • 33rd century BC
  • 32nd century BC
Decades:
  • 3290s BC
  • 3280s BC
  • 3270s BC
  • 3260s BC
  • 3250s BC
  • 3240s BC
  • 3230s BC
  • 3220s BC
  • 3210s BC
  • 3200s BC
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The 33rd century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC.

Events[]

The sun shines over Saharan dunes
  • Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
  • India Mathura Lord Krishna was born
  • Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert
  • Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing
  • Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization) begins in Harappa
  • c. 3300 BC: Archaeological evidence suggests the transition from Copper to Bronze took place around 3300 BC.
  • c. 3300 BC: Harappan script is developed in Indus Valley
  • c. 3300 BC: Pictographs in Uruk
  • 3300 BC: to 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003).
  • c. 3300 BC: The Red Temple, the first phase of the Monte d'Accoddi sanctuary in Northwest Sardinia, is built.
  • 3300-3000 BC: Evidence of proto-Thracians or proto-Dacians in the prehistoric period. Proto-Dacian or proto-Thracian people developed from a mixture of indigenous peoples and Indo-Europeans from the time of Proto-Indo-European expansion in the Early Bronze Age

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