2011-04-07

4004 B.C.

5th millennium BC

Millennia: 6th millennium BC · 5th millennium BC · 4th millennium BC
Centuries: 50th century BC · 49th century BC · 48th century BC · 47th century BC · 46th century BC · 45th century BC · 44th century BC · 43rd century BC · 42nd century BC · 41st century BC
The Neolithic
Mesolithic
Europe
Linear Pottery
Vinča culture
Varna culture
Vučedol culture
Malta Temples
Boian culture
Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
China
Korea
South Asia
Mehrgarh
Pre-Columbian Americas

Chalcolithic

Uruk period
Pit Grave culture
Corded Ware
Europe
Mesoamerica

farming, animal husbandry
pottery, metallurgy, wheel
circular ditches, henges, megaliths
Neolithic religion

Bronze Age

The 5th millennium BC saw the spread of agriculture from the Near East throughout southern and central Europe.

Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia flourished, developing the wheel. Copper ornaments became more common, marking the Chalcolithic. Animal husbandry spread throughout Eurasia, reaching China. World population grew slightly throughout the millennium, maybe from 5 to 7 million people.

Cultures

Events

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Environmental changes

Holocene Epoch
Pleistocene
Holocene
Preboreal ( 10.3 ka – 9 ka),
Boreal ( 9 ka – 7.5 ka),
Atlantic ( 7.5 ka5 ka),
Subboreal ( 5 ka2.5 ka)
Subatlantic (2.5 ka – present)

Calendars and chronology

References

  1. ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World." Penguin, 1994.





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