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Event trade Middle East

Damascus

3000 BCE

One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, pivotal hub of the spice and silk trades for millennia.

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Standing in 3000 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Austronesians Polity · Oceania 3000 BCE – 400 BCE Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Plitvice Lakes Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – still standing

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3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri 3000 BCE Newgrange 3000 BCE Byblos