3rd millennium BC

Millennia:	4th millennium BC · 3rd millennium BC · 2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	30th century BC · 29th century BC · 28th century BC · 27th century BC · 26th century BC · 25th century BC · 24th century BC · 23rd century BC · 22nd century BC · 21st century BC

The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age.

This was a period of time in which the desire to conquer was common. Expansion occurred throughout the Middle East and throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia. The civilization of Ancient Egypt rose to a peak with the Old Kingdom. World population is estimated to have doubled in the course of the millennium to 30 million people.

3rd Millennium BC Media

A model of the prehistoric town of Los Millares, with its walls.
Detail of a victory stele of Akkadian king Rimush
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic steppes and across Central Asia
Great Pyramid of Giza, Kheops.
The Medicine Wheel in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming, United States.
Chariot depicted on the Standard of Ur, from the Sumerian city-state of Ur, c. 2600 BC
Stonehenge

Millennia:	4th millennium BC · 3rd millennium BC · 2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	30th century BC · 29th century BC · 28th century BC · 27th century BC · 26th century BC · 25th century BC · 24th century BC · 23rd century BC · 22nd century BC · 21st century BC