Hieroglyphic writing emerges
3,200 BCE* · Event
Egypt develops its hieroglyphic script, among the world's earliest writing systems, used for over three millennia.
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- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
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- Death of Cleopatra (30 BCE)
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055 BCE)
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- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)