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Millennia
5th millennium BC
(
6th millennium BC
–
5th millennium BC
–
4th millennium BC
–
other millennia
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Contents
1 Events
2 Cultures
3 Periods
4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Events
4713 BC – The
epoch
(origin) of the Julian Period described by
Joseph Justus Scaliger
occurred on
January 1
, the astronomical
Julian day number
zero.
4004 BC – The
universe
is created at nightfall preceding
October 23
according to the
chronology
of Archbishop
James Ussher
of
Armagh
.
Cultures
c. 4500 BC – Civilization of
Susa
and
Kish
in
Mesopotamia
Cucuteni culture
Periods
c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the
Nile
c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Introduction of
writing
.
Tartaria tablets
in the lower
Danube
Valley date from around 5000 BC and first examples of
Sumerian
writing in
Mesopotamia
date from around 4000 BC.
c. 4500 BC – Introduction of the
plough
in
Europe
Domestication of the
Water Buffalo
in
China
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