6th millennium BC
(7th millennium BC - 6th millennium BC - 5th millennium BC - other millennia
Events:
- Agriculture appears in the valley of the Nile
- Rice cultivated in Asia
- Wheel and plough invented
- circa 5600 BC - The Black Sea floods with salt water
- September 1, 5509 BC - day of creation of the world (according to the Byzantine Empire) and beginning of their calendar [1]
- circa 5500 BC - pottery at Mehrgarh in South Asia
- 5400s BC - Irrigation in Mesopotamia
- 5100s BC - Templess founded in South Mesopotamia