General
Population: Perhaps 7 million*
- Languages: earliest pictograph writing and cylinder seals developed
Asia
- Japan: Eruption of Kikai-Akahoya
Europe
- General: Horses domesticated - or 4400 BC
- Britain: First megalithic tomb
Middle East
- Mesopotamia: First fillages formed at Jericho, Catal Huyuk, Hacilar, Abu Hureya, and Ain Ghazal
- Sumer: Sumerians settle - city of Uruk formed