VI millennium BC c.

The 6th millennium BC. C. began on January 1, 6000 B.C. C. and ended on December 31, 5001 B.C. C. It includes the centuries: LX (60) to LI (51) a. c.

During the 6th millennium BC. C., agriculture spread from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe, and from Mesopotamia to Egypt. The world population reached 5 million inhabitants.^{[citation needed]}

Events

6000 BCE C

• In the Nile Valley (Egypt), in India and in southern Europe agriculture appears: humans begin to develop the first stable farms in the world.
• In Mesopotamia the wheel, the plow and the trillion are blown.
• In Baluchistan (Pakistan) the first period of Mehrgarh's culture reached its maximum development.
• In the northeast of the present Syria begins the Haitian culture.
• In the fertile Crescent area the Copper Age begins to manifest.
• In the Middle East, cattle breeding develops.
• At the foot of the Zagros mountains the first irrigations are made.
• In several regions of Asia, such as Thailand, rice cultivation is developed.
• The Neolytic age develops in Korea.
• In Lepenski Vir, on the banks of the Danube River, the first peasant villages in Europe begin to develop.
• In the cave of Svarthola, Rogaland (Norway), some 25 people leave the first traces of occupation.
• In Çatalhöyük, first pottery and known wool fabrics.

5900 BC C

• On the banks of the river Danubio the culture of vincha
• In the Tiliviche (North of Chile) corn is cultivated.

5800 BC C

• 5760 B.C.: In France, the Puy de Dôme volcano erupted.

5600 BC C

• The depression of the Black Sea is flooded with water from the Aegean Sea. According to a hypothesis that tries to explain through this flood the universal flood presented in the Bible, at this time the patriarch Noah would have lived.
• In north-west Africa extreme desertification of the Sahara begins, leading to massive migrations to the Nile Valley in north-east Africa.
• The Hassuna-Samarra culture appears in Mesopotamia.

5500 BC C

• In Mehrgarh (South Asia) ceramics are developed. Start of the Second Period of this culture.
• In India and the rest of the subcontinent cotton is cultivated.
• In Europe the Cardial Neolithic, with printed ceramics, began to develop.
• September 1, 5509 BC: World Creation Day (according to the Byzantine Empire) and the beginning of its calendar [1]

5400 BC C

• In Mesopotamia, irrigation works begin.
• 5450 B.C.: The Hekla Volcano enters eruption
• Ends the prosperity of Çatalhöyük, the most extensive city of the time.

5200 BC C

• The first inhabitants arrive in Malta.
• In the Yellow River (China) chickens begin to be tamed.
• 5200 to 3400 BC: in the valley of Tehuacán the first crops arise: pumpkin, pepper, corn and beans. The hunt stops being preponderant.

5100 BC C

• In the south of Mesopotamia temples are built.

5000 to 4000 BCE C

• Colonization of the Mesopotamian alluvial plain by groups that practice irrigated.
• In the Nile River Valley (Egypt), nomadic groups are grouped in tribes and subsequently in villages creating agricultural settlements.
• On the Peruvian coast – from Ilo (Peru) to Antofagasta (Chile) – Chinchorro culture is developed. His mummies are the oldest in the world. She disappeared by 2000 a. C.