Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends
4,000 BCE* · Event
Conventional end date used here for the early agricultural transition; farming continued to spread and to arise independently long after.
On these timelines: Master
Around 4000 BCE
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- The Creation (4004 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Stonehenge (3000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)