Naqada culture
4,000 BCE–3,000 BCE* · Event
Predynastic culture of Upper Egypt (c. 4000-3000 BC) whose pottery, craft specialisation and trade networks laid the foundations for the unification of Egypt and the pharaonic state.
On these timelines: Ancient Egypt, North Africa, Master
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- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Carving of the Rosetta Stone (196 BCE)
- Akhenaten's religious revolution (1347 BCE)
- Djoser's Step Pyramid built (2650 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)
- Kushite conquest of Egypt (750 BCE)
- Champollion deciphers hieroglyphs (1822)
- Persian conquest of Egypt (525 BCE)
Around 4000 BCE
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Spread of agriculture to Europe (5000 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Ötzi the Iceman dies (3300 BCE)
- Skara Brae inhabited (3180 BCE)