Home > 7th millennium BC

1 Events

• Agriculture appears in Europe ( Greece, Italy)
• Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara)
• First pottery in Mesopotamia
• Gold and native copper begin to be used
• circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South AsiaSouth Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It covers about 4,480,000 km², or 10 percent of the continent and is also known as the Indian subcontinent . These s
• circa 6500 BC – English ChannelThe English Channel is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. In French it is called La Manche ("the sleeve"). It is about 350 miles long and at its widest i formed
• circa 6000 BC – Neolithic Age in Korea

2 Inventions/Introductions

• Domestication of the cow in the Middle East