Invention of the wheel
~3500 BCE · Event
Earliest known wheeled vehicles appear in Mesopotamia and the Pontic steppe.
On these timelines: Master, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
Around 3500 BCE
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)