The world in the 32nd century BCE

In the 32nd century BCE (3200 to 3101 BCE), the timeline shows 0 states, empires and colonies and 114 peoples across 12 regions.

Next: 31st century BCE

Events

• 3200 BCE Writing invented at Uruk, Middle East. Temple scribes at Uruk press accounting signs into clay tablets. Over the following centuries this proto-cuneiform grows into a full writing system used for 3,000 years.

Central and Southern Africa

• Central African forest foragers c. 3200 BCE to the present
• San hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Khoisan hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to 1100 CE
• East African hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Lower Congo hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to 500 CE
• Great Lakes hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to 500 CE
• Pre-settlement Madagascar c. 3200 BCE to 400 CE

North and West Africa

• Amazigh (Berber) tribes c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Cushitic-speaking pastoralists c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Middle Nile herders and farmers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Saharan cattle pastoralists c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Tropical forest hunter-gatherers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Lake Chad fishers and herders c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• A-Group culture c. 3200 to 2900 BCE
• Naqada culture c. 3200 to 3100 BCE

Europe

• Yamnaya culture c. 3200 to 2600 BCE
• Cucuteni-Trypillia culture c. 3200 to 3000 BCE
• Narva culture c. 3200 to 1750 BCE
• Volosovo culture c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• Early and Middle Helladic Greece c. 3200 to 1600 BCE
• Comb Ceramic culture c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Copper Age Italy c. 3200 to 2200 BCE
• Cycladic culture c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Neolithic Britain and Ireland c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Neolithic farmers of Gaul c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Megalithic farmers of western Iberia c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Los Millares culture c. 3200 to 2200 BCE
• Cotofeni culture c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Pitted Ware culture c. 3200 to 2300 BCE
• Baden culture c. 3200 to 2800 BCE
• Funnelbeaker culture c. 3200 to 2800 BCE
• Maykop culture c. 3200 to 3000 BCE

Middle East

• Sumerians c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• Uruk period c. 3200 to 3100 BCE
• Zagros highland peoples c. 3200 to 800 BCE
• Arabian pastoral nomads c. 3200 to 900 BCE
• South Semitic peoples of Yemen c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Canaanites c. 3200 to 1150 BCE
• Helmand culture (Shahr-i Sokhta) c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• Kura-Araxes culture c. 3200 to 2200 BCE
• Early Bronze Age Anatolian towns c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Hafit culture c. 3200 to 2600 BCE
• Maykop culture c. 3200 to 3000 BCE
• Proto-Elamite period c. 3200 to 2700 BCE

South Asia

• Mehrgarh and Baluchistan farmers c. 3200 to 2600 BCE
• Early Harappan phase c. 3200 to 2600 BCE
• Balangoda culture c. 3200 to 900 BCE
• Microlithic hunter-gatherers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Neolithic and Chalcolithic farmers of the Ganges c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Early Dravidian-speaking peoples c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Neolithic farmers of Bengal and Assam c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Deccan hunter-gatherers c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Helmand culture c. 3200 to 2000 BCE

Central and North Asia

• Afanasievo culture c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Yamnaya culture (Ural steppe) c. 3200 to 2600 BCE
• Uralic hunter-fishers of western Siberia c. 3200 BCE to 1000 CE
• Baikal hunter-fishers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Early foragers and herders of Mongolia c. 3200 to 1400 BCE
• Namazga culture c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Belkachi culture c. 3200 to 2200 BCE
• Foragers of Xinjiang c. 3200 to 2500 BCE
• Botai culture c. 3200 to 3100 BCE

East Asia

• Jomon culture c. 3200 to 300 BCE
• Liangzhu culture c. 3200 to 2300 BCE
• Hongshan culture c. 3200 to 2900 BCE
• Yangshao culture c. 3200 to 3000 BCE
• Formosan Austronesian peoples c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Neolithic farmers of the Tibetan plateau c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Amur and Ussuri foragers c. 3200 to 1100 BCE
• Jeulmun pottery period c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Qujialing and Shijiahe cultures c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Majiayao culture c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Dawenkou culture c. 3200 to 2600 BCE

Southeast Asia

• Philippine Negrito foragers c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Pre-Austronesian foragers c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Hoabinhian foragers c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Hoabinhian foragers c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Hoabinhian foragers c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Neolithic cultures of northern Vietnam c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Hoabinhian foragers c. 3200 to 2000 BCE

North America

• California Archaic hunter-gatherers c. 3200 BCE to 500 CE
• Shield Archaic c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Plains Archaic hunters c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Maritime Archaic c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Eastern Archaic hunter-gatherers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Southwestern Archaic foragers c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Early Pacific period cultures c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• Northern Archaic tradition c. 3200 to 2000 BCE
• Watson Brake mounds c. 3200 to 2800 BCE

Mesoamerica and Caribbean

• Casimiroid culture c. 3200 to 200 BCE
• Ortoiroid culture c. 3200 to 400 BCE
• Desert Archaic foragers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Archaic foragers and gardeners of the isthmus c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Archaic maize farmers c. 3200 to 1200 BCE
• Archaic peoples of the Maya region c. 3200 to 1200 BCE
• Archaic foragers of Oaxaca and the Gulf c. 3200 to 1500 BCE

South America

• Chinchorro culture c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Valdivia culture c. 3200 to 1800 BCE
• Fuegian canoe peoples (Yaghan, Kawésqar) c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Sambaqui shell-mound builders c. 3200 BCE to 1000 CE
• Interior Archaic hunter-gatherers c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Pampas and Patagonian Archaic hunters c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Mayo-Chinchipe culture c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Amazonian Archaic foragers c. 3200 to 1000 BCE
• Northern Andean Archaic peoples c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Andean Archaic hunters and herders c. 3200 to 1500 BCE
• Archaic fishing villages of the Peruvian coast c. 3200 to 1800 BCE

Oceania

• Aboriginal Australian peoples c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Papuan farmers and foragers c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Kuk Swamp agriculture c. 3200 to 500 BCE
• Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples c. 3200 BCE to the present
• Uninhabited c. 3200 BCE to 1280 CE
• Uninhabited c. 3200 BCE to 1000 CE
• Uninhabited c. 3200 to 100 BCE