General
Population: Perhaps 7 million*
- Traditional Creationist date for the beginning of the world - population: 2
Africa
- Egypt: Sails used on boats
Copper Age
- North: Farmers in Sahara domesticate animals in the rich grassland
- West: Pottery made in Ghana
Americas
Asia
- Yang-Shao rice farming culture
Europe
- Britain: Evidence of crops raised
Timber walkway across swampy areas built (3876 or 3807 BC)
- Eastern Europe: Horse domesticated in steppes
- France: Passage graves built at Carnac
- Scandinavia: Farming
Middle East
- Mesopotamia: City of Enridu expands
Pictograms created with over 2000 signs
- Sumer: Writing on clay tablets and bureaucracies run by priests
- Turkey: Civilization of Catal Huyuk
Pacific
- Colonizationi of Pacific islands begins