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Millennium:	4th millennium BC
Centuries:	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
Categories:	Births – Deaths; Establishments – Disestablishments

[edit] Events

The sun shines over Saharan dunes.

Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
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 or Sindu-Sarasvati civilization) began in Harappa.
c. 3300 BC—Pictographs in Uruk.
3300 BC – 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered 2003).
Death of 'Ginger', the earliest known ancient Egyptian "mummy".
Plough still in use.

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