33rd century BC
The 33rd century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC.Events
- 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 begins in Harappa
- 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 is made. It is now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
- 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
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- The Bronze Age begins in the Fertile Crescent
- Cattle introduced to the Nile valley
- Egyptians domesticate the wild ass of North Africa
- c. 3250 BC – Potter's wheel in use in Ancient Near East
Significant people
- Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy discovered in the Austrian/Italian Alps in 1991
