Semi-permanent agricultural settlements in Old World. Copper used by Egyptians and Sumerians. Western Europe is neolithic, without metals or written records. Earliest Egyptian mummies. Phoenician settlements on coast of what is now Syria and Lebanon.
Semitic tribes settle in Assyria.
Sargon, first Akkadian king, builds Mesopotamian empire. Systematic astronomy in Egypt, Babylon, India, China. The most ancient civilization on the Indian subcontinent, the sophisticated and extensive Indus Valley civilization, flourishes in what is today Pakistan. In Britain, Stonehenge erected according to some unknown astronomical rationale. Israelites enslaved in Egypt.