The era of
Subscribe2900s BCE
2 recaps across 1 year of the decade. Reconstructed from contemporary coverage, archives, and the public record.
2900 · Wars
2900 BCEEarly Dynastic Wars in Mesopotamia
Sumerian city-states' territorial conflicts, documented in the Stele of the Vultures, represent humanity's first recorded organized military campaigns.
Iraq · 2900 · Disasters
2900 BCEGreat Flood of Mesopotamia
An epic inundation devastated Sumerian settlements, leaving geological traces and immortalizing the deluge in written legend—humanity's first recorded environmental catastrophe.
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