5th millennium BC
(6th millennium BC - 5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - other millennia)
Events:
- date varies: [1] - Creation of the world, according to some analyses of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, based mainly on a literal interpretation of the genealogy of early mankind given in the Book of Genesis
- circa 4500 BC - Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia
- circa 4570 BC - 4250 BC: - Merimde culture on the Nile
- circa 4400 BC - 4000 BC: - Badari culture on the Nile
- Introduction of writing
- circa 4500 BC - Introduction of the plough in Europe
- Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China