5th millennium BC
(6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – other millennia)
Events:
- date varies: [1] – 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
- circa 4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia
- circa 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
- circa 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile
- Introduction of writing
- circa 4500 BC – Introduction of the plough in Europe
- Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China