6th millennium BC

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The 6th millennium BC describes the period from 6000 BC to 5000 BC

Era / period

To 5500 BC, the Mesolithic period ends in Central Europe and the Early Neolithic of the Neolithic period begins.
To 5500 BC begins the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia, which begins about the same time, the Copper Age in the Near East.

Britain is separated from mainland Europe. Cause is the melting of glaciers and the associated sea level rise. To 5800 BC occurred a massive landslide at Storegga in southwest Norway. Neolithic settlements in Scotland are flooded.
To 5510 BC, the Bosporus is flooded. Salt water breaks into the Black Sea and can raise sea level by more than 100 meters rise. Numerous settlements on the banks are flooded. Possibly, this disaster a historical background of the Flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible dar.
In the Mediterranean there is monsoon climate
Aboriginal in today's U.S. State of Florida use for more than 1000 years the swamp Windover Bog as a burial ground.

Merimde Culture in the Nile River in Egypt, around the end of the 6th millennium to late 5th or early 4th millennium

Culture of the Linear Pottery (about 5500-5000 BC)
Starčevo culture (also called Starčevo Körös Criş culture called ) in South East Europe (ca. 6200-5600 BC)
Körös culture in Hungary (ca. 6200-5600 BC)
Vinča culture 5400-4500 BC in South-East Europe

Agriculture in the Nile Valley, Egypt
Invention of the plow
And by 6000 BC the domestic chicken was domesticated in China.
And by 6000 BC the vine in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia was grown.
To 5600 BC: earliest agriculture in Central Europe.
To 5500 BC: Irrigation of fields in Mesopotamia.
To 5500 BC: oldest pottery in South Asia ( Mehrgarh ).
Between 5500-5300 BC: in northern China for the first time millet, probably domesticated foxtail millet.
To 5300 BC caused the so-called Vinča signs and the Danube script.
To 5200 BC: Establishment of temples in southern Mesopotamia.
5101 BC wood nails were used for nailing a wooden fountain in Saxony. It thus is the oldest wooden nails in the world and can be dated precisely on the basis of annual rings in the wood.
To 5100 BC: cultivation of corn, beans, avocados, and squash in Central America.
By 5000 BC: Cultivation of rice in Asia ( east China).

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