40th century BC

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The 40th century BC started on January 1, 4000 BC and ended on December 31, 3901 BC

Calendar

  • Venerable Bede is the beginning of recorded time to the year 3952 BC
  • For the Masons since the 18th century is the year 4000 BC as the year of the creation of the world ( Anno Lucis ). Add logical 4000 years to the current calendar year, and so, for example, in 2014 AD to 6014 AL.

Events / developments

  • The world's population was about seven million people around 4000 BC.
  • Around 4000 BC, a suburb of London, for crossing a marsh area of the Belmarsh trackway is in English Plumstead created. This wooden boardwalk is the oldest previously known paths construction.

Inventions and Discoveries

  • Around 4000 BC, the donkey was domesticated in North Africa.
  • Around 4000 BC (linen) is grown and processed systematically in Egypt flax.

Cultures

  • Egypt: Heyday of the Naqada culture in Upper Egypt ( Naqada I - 4500-3500 BC).
  • The Maadi culture in Lower Egypt begins ( 4000-3500 BC).
  • Early Uruk period ( 4200-3800 BC) - Uruk Uruk IX and XII to LC -2.
  • Dadiwan culture ( 5800-3000 BC), upper Yellow River.
  • Yangshao culture ( 5000-2000 BC), central and northern China.
  • Hongshan culture ( 4700-2900 BC), Northeast China.
  • Daxi culture ( 4400-3300 BC), Middle Yangtze River.
  • Dawenkou culture ( 4100-2600 BC), along Yellow Sea.
  • Inserting the Beiyinyangying culture ( 4000-3000 BC ) on the lower Yangtze River.
  • Beginning of the Đa but- culture ( 4000-1700 BC).
  • Japan: The Early Jōmon period ( Jōmon III - 4000-3000 / 2500 BC ) begins first major settlements.
  • Indus: Beginning of the Amri Culture ( 4th and 3rd millennium BC).
  • Kurgan cultures ( 5000-3000 BC): Sredny - Stog culture ( 4500-3500 BC) north of the Azov Sea.
  • Lengyel Culture ( 4900-3950 BC).
  • Grübchenkeramische culture ( 4200-2000 BC - radiocarbon: 5600-2300 BC).
  • Narva culture ( 5300-1750 BC).
  • Neman culture ( 7000-3000 BC).
  • Boian culture in Romania and Bulgaria ( 4300-3500 BC) - Phase IV - Spanţov phase - 4000-3500 BC
  • Cucuteni culture ( 4800-3200 BC): Cucuteni, Phase B and Tripolje, B2/C1 phase ( 4000-3500 BC)
  • Gumelniţa culture ( 4700-3700 BC): Phase Gumelniţa A2 ( 4500-3950 BC)
  • Chassey- Lagozza - Cortaillod culture ( 4600-2400 BC).
  • Megalithic cultures: France ( 4700-2000 BC).
  • Iberian Peninsula ( 4000-2000 BC).
  • Sardinia: Ozieri culture ( 4000-3200 BC).
  • Malta: the Żebbuġ phase ( 4100-3800 BC) with the Brochtorff Circle.
  • Gatersleben culture - 4300-3900 BC
  • Rössen culture - 4300-3500 BC
  • Funnel Beaker culture (northern Central Europe) - 4200-2800 BC
  • Archaic period. From 4000 BC, construction of mounds in the eastern forests.
April 2014 List of centuries 2nd millennium BC 37th century BC England Đa Bút culture Korea Indus River Sredny Stog culture Sea of Azov Northeastern Europe Cucuteni-Trypillian culture Western Europe Xagħra Stone Circle Mesoamerica Archaic period in North America
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