NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 4200 BC

4713 BC – The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.
c. 4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia
4004 BC – The universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.

Periods

c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Introduction of writing
c. 4500 BC – Introduction of the plough in Europe
Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China

Categories: Millennia

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Saturnian Cosmology - Preface and synopsis (4451 words)
	The last 1000 years of this period (4200 BC to 3100 BC) was remembered as the "Age of the Gods" and subsequent human history has been a singular effort to regain the Paradise of that time.
	In 3100 BC this configuration broke apart, with the large planets moving far away from the Sun, and the smaller planets assigned to a series of nearly overlapping 'inner' orbits.
	The biannual close calls by Mars between 3100 BC and 2700 BC are recorded as events in the dynastic records of the Palermo Stone of Egypt.

5th millennium BC (91 words)
	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.
	Merimde[?] culture on the Nile, circa 4750 - 4250 BC.
	Badari[?] culture on the Nile, circa 4400 - 4000 BC.

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