5th millennium BC

(6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – other millennia)

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Events:

• date varies: [1] – Creation of the world, according to some analyses of the Hebrew Bible, based mainly on a literal reading of the genealogy of early mankind given in the Book of Genesis.
• circa 4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia

Periods:

• circa 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
• circa 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• Introduction of writing
• circa 4500 BC – Introduction of the plough in Europe
• Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China