HOME Mesolithic (9999-5700) Chalcolithic (5699-3500 BCE) 3400's History Timeline Index
5600 CHALCOLITHIC PERIOD - The Copper Age (approx. 2100 years) 5600-3500
Bronze Age begins - Chalcolithic as beginning stage in some areas
Great Flood? - Bosporus sill is crested perhaps creating the flood of Genesis - 60,000 sq. mi flooded around Black Sea
5500
5400
5300 Early Ubaid Period + (aka Eridu Period) 5300-4700
5200
5100
5000 Sea divides Britain from rest of Europe
Use of copper in Mesopotamia begins
Eridu village
Uruk
Painted pottery at Susa
Beginnings of agriculture in Mexico
4900
4800 Middle Ubaid Period + (aka Hadji Mohammad) 4800-4500
4700
4600
4500 Later Ubaid Period + (aka Classic Ubaid) 4500-4000
4400
4300
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4280
4270
4260
4250 Al'Ubaid culture in Sumer - well developed urban life (-3750)
4240
4230
4220
4210
4200 Susa founded?
4190
4180
4170
4160
4150
4140
4130
4120
4110
4100 Uruk culture
4090
4080
4070
4060
4050
4040
4030
4020
4010
4000 // 6008 BP NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION ?
Yang-shao rice farming culture in China
3990
3980
3970
3960
3950
3940
3930
3928 Solar Eclipse 7/25 (India)
3920
3910
3900
3890
3880
3870
3860
3850
3840
3830
3820
3810
3800
3790
3780
3770
3761 Jewish Year of Creation (3760)
3760
3750
3740
3730
3720
3710
3700
3690
3680
3670
3660
3650
3641 Mayan calendar begins (3372)
3640
3630
3620
3610
3600
3590
3580
3570
3560
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3520
3510
3500 BRONZE AGE (3500-1300)
Beginning of pictogram writing
Nile Valley fully utilized for agriculture
Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia
Susa A +
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