In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture becomes widely practiced in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia. Pottery becomes widespread (with independent development in Central America) and animal husbandry (pastoralism) spreads to Africa and Eurasia. World population is approximately 5 million. These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC. Blue areas are covered in ice. ... During the 7th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans. ... The Fertile Crescent is a historical crescent-shape region in the Middle East incorporating the Levant, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... In a draw in a mountainous region, a shepherd guides a flock of about 20 sheep amidst scrub and olive trees. ... Pastoralism is a form of farming, such as agriculture and horticulture. ... Map of countries by population —showing the population of the Peoples Republic of China and India, the only two countries to have a population greater than a billion. ...

Events

The south area of Çatalhöyük. An archaeological dig is in progress.

• c. 8000 BC — Ice Age ended.
• c. 8000 BC — Upper Paleolithic period ended.
• c. 8000 BC — 7000 BC — Paleolithic-Neolithic overlap.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Pelopponese, Greece, continues. First evidence of seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian trade with Melos. The settlement was continuously occupied since 20,000 BC and abandonded in 3,000 BC.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud, Norway are established.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
• c. 8000 BC — Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
• c. 8000 BC — North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
• c. 8000 BC — Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into the Southwest United States.
• c. 8000 BC — Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America (from 9th millennium)
• c. 8000 BC — World population: 5,000,000^[1]
• c. 7500 BC — Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland are constructed.
• c. 7500 BC — Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, is founded.
• c. 7500 BC — Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
• c. 7500 BC — Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
• c. 7370 BC — End of the large settlement at Jericho.
• c. 7200–5000 BC — Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres.
• c. 7000 BC — The earliest possible rise of the Punjab culture.

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Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: αρχαίος, archae, ancient; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. ... (8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – other millennia) Events circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia circa 6500 BC – English Channel formed circa 6100 BC – The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea circa 6000... This cranium, of Homo heidelbergensis, a Lower Paleolithic predecessor to Homo neanderthalensis, dates to between 400,000 BCE to 500,000 BCE The Paleolithic is a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of stone tools. ... An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. ... Franchthi Cave (Greek Σπήλαιον Φράγχθη) is a cave overlooking the Argolic Gulf that has yielded large numbers of artifacts relating to Neolithic Greece. ... Milos (formerly Melos, and before the Athenian genocide Malos) is a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea. ... Nevali Cori is an early Neolithic settlement in the upper Euphrates valley, eastern Turkey, around 490 m high. ... Sagalassos is an ancient archaeological site of a Hellenic city in southwestern Turkey. ... Location of Akure in Nigeria Akure is a city in the southwestern region of Nigeria, and is the largest city and capital of Ondo State. ... 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Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Satellite image of the Arctic surface The Arctic is the region around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. ... The Paleo-Arctic Tradition is the name given by archaeologists to the cultural tradition of the earliest well-documented human occupants of the North American Arctic, which date from the period 8000–5000 BC. The tradition covers Alaska and expands far into the east, west, and the Southwest Yukon Territory. ... Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is the preferred term for the group of peoples often known as Anasazi who are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. ... Paleo-Indians is an English term used to refer to the ancient peoples of America who were present at the end of the last Ice Age. ... The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... The Plano cultures is a name given by archaeologists to a group of disparate hunter-gatherer communities that occupied the Great Plains area of North America between 9000 BC and 6000 BC. They are characterised by a range of projectile point tools collectively called Plano points and generally hunted bison... The Great Plains covers much of the central United States, portions of Canada and Mexico. ... 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Environmental changes

• c. 8000 BC — Glaciers form the rock formation in present-day New Hampshire formerly known as the "Old Man of the Mountain."
• c. 7911 BC — Series of seven massive volcanic eruptions give volcanic skies and lowered temperatures for several centuries <t.7090 BC>. Locations not known, but show in polar ice. (NatGeo1986-9)
• c. 7640 BC — Date theorized for impact of Tollmann's hypothetical bolide with Earth and associated global cataclysm.
• c. 7220 BC — Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska.
• Large outflow of fresh water from Black Sea into Aegean Sea.

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Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Rise of agriculture.
• First known marriages in Ancient Near East.
• Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America
• Beginning of rice cultivation in East Asia
• Domestication of the cat and Bos aegyptiacus ox in Ancient Egypt
• Domestication of sheep in Southwest Asia
• Huts, hearths, granaries, and nonportable stone tools for grinding grains Africa
• Catal Huyuk, men wear animals skins, plus hats of the same material Asia
• Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone—and most remarkably—bone flutes China
• City located in Anatolia, or modern day Turkey where a number of artifacts appear to support evidence for the widespread practice of Goddess worship
• Clay and plaster are molded to form statues at Jericho and cAin Ghazal Mediterranean
• First evidence for this with incised "counting tokens" about 9,000 years ago in the Neolithic fertile crescent. Asia
• Japanese potters begin around this time to decorate pottery cooking vessels Japan
• Simple pottery traditions sometimes with cord impressions or other decorative markings Korea
• Agriculture in New Guinea Australia
• Chinese in this village Jiahu already had established a village life. Parts of the city were devoted to different functions China
• Chinese were accomplished musicians and craftspeople the Jiahu site China
• Evidence of wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggests that a food-producing economy is adopted in Aegean Greece
• Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece, attests to the earliest deliberate burials in Greece
• North Sea: North Sea bottoms are largely dry land before this period. England
• Archaic Period; Native Americans move seasonally around Vermont to live, hunt, gather, and fish
• Pottery making, burial mound construction, and garden technology Mexico
• Off the main road connecting the capital to Cuernavaca, stands a circular step pyramid of great complexity Mexico City
• In the valley of Mexico, chili peppers and "grain" (amaranth & maize) are grown.
• Glacial activity creates Champlain Sea; Paleo-Indians explore and hunt in Vermont
• World — Between 12,000 BC and 5,000 BC it appears that massive inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide
• Northern Europe — Women supposedly developed blonde ("blond" for males) hair and blue eyes to allure or attract scarce population of males due to conditions in the north (The Sunday Times, 26 February 2006)

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Cultural landmarks

• c. 7500 BC — Howick house in Northumberland, England is constructed.
• c. 7193 BC — According to Korean legend, an alliance of northern Altaic tribes under a "Huan" (Hun) ruler predates the establishment of China.

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Fiction and myth

• 8,000 BC — approximate birth date of The Emperor.
• 7,911 BC — birthdate of Cosmo and Wanda in The Fairly OddParents
• c. 7600 BC — The Changelings founded The Dominion in the fictional Star Trek universe.
• 7227 BC — the supposed date of the fall of Atlantis according to Rudolf Steiner.
• The Ancients (Alterans) of the fictional Stargate universe submerge Atlantis following a losing war with the Wraith species, closely matching the supposed date of the mythical city.

The Emperor of Mankind The Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind is the leader of the Imperium in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, the largest human organization within that universe. ... Cosmo and Wanda are fictional characters who are the title characters in the Nickelodeon animated television series The Fairly OddParents. ... The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman. ... Changelings are an alien race from the Star Trek universe. ... In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Dominion is a ruthless and militaristic Gamma Quadrant state, consisting of many different races, with ultimate power held by the xenophobic Changelings. ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Rudolf Steiner. ... An Ancient The Ancients are a fictional race in the Stargate universe. ... An activated Stargate, the central object of the fictional Stargate universe, here depicted in the SG-1 television series. ... Aerial view of Atlantis. ... In the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the Wraith are the original antagonistic alien species, first introduced in the pilot episode Rising. In the early seasons of the show they dominated the Pegasus Galaxy, the shows setting, and were an almost unstoppable and fatal threat. ...

References

1. ^ an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population