Economy & TradeThe 3rd millennium BCE

Economy & Trade in the 3rd millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources, narrowed to the 3rd millennium BCE — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 3000 BCE to 2300 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
3000 BCE
Latest
2300 BCE
Asia
2
Africa
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 3000 BCEAsia

    Saudi Arabia

    The Dilmun trading culture flourishes

    Around the eastern shores of the Arabian Peninsula, the Dilmun culture became a hub linking Mesopotamia with the Indus valley, remembered in Sumerian literature as a land of prosperity and long life.

    Era: Ancient Arabia and the Caravan Kingdoms

    Sources: The Arabian Peninsula: A cradle of ancient kingdoms · Al Majalla

  2. c. 2500 BCEAfrica

    Somalia

    Egyptian trade with Punt begins

    Egyptian records attest trading contact with Punt from the Old Kingdom onward, drawing the Horn of Africa into pharaonic commerce in aromatic resins and luxury goods.

    Era: The Land of Punt and the Ancient Incense Coast

    Sources: Punt (ancient region, Africa) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Punt · World History Encyclopedia

  3. c. 2300 BCEAsia

    Oman

    Magan supplies copper to Mesopotamia

    Sumerian texts record a land called Magan, identified with Oman, as a source of copper and diorite carried by sea to the city-states of Mesopotamia.

    Era: Magan, Copper and the Land of Frankincense

    Sources: Ancient Oman: Archaeological Digs and Historical Discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman · Library of Congress, Oman: The early period · Encyclopaedia Britannica