Humanity’s first monarch, perhaps Dumuzid, comes to power in Sumeria
Sumeria was the first civilization, created the first writing system, and had the first monarch.
27th Century B.C.E.
Maya culture emerges in the Yucatan
The Maya Long Count Calendar gives a Maya creation date of 11 August, 3114 BC, and traces of Maya habitation at Cuello, in Belize, were recently carbon dated to around 2600 BC.
The Old Kingdom of Egypt begins
The Old Kingdom, in ancient Egyptian history, is the period in the third millennium (c. 26862181 BC) also known as the ‘Age of the Pyramids’ or ‘Age of the Pyramid Builders’.