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32nd century BC

(33rd century BC - 32nd century BC - 31st century BC - other centuries)

(5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC)

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Events

• Egypt: Start of First Dynasty
• Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization
• Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
• New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton Newgrange solar observatory

Significant persons

• Menes, unites Egypt into the Old Kingdom and founds Memphis, Egypt as his new capital.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 3114 BC - Starting date of current Long Count in the Maya calendar

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