Bronze Age begins
c. 3300 BCE · Event
Smiths learn to alloy copper with tin, producing bronze and the harder tools and weapons that named an age.
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Around 3300 BCE
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)