World Highlights in history 3000 ~ 4000 BC

Highlights in history 3000 ~ 4000 BC

Europe : Wheeled vehicles in central Europe c. 3500
Standing stones in Britain and France c. 3200

Asia : Earliest cities develop in Mesopotamia c. 3500
Development of civilisation along Indus Valley c. 3000
Wheel and potter's wheel in Sumer, Indus Valley c. 3400
First Writing, cuneiform, at Uruk, Sumer, c. 3300

Americas : Farmers in Peru grow cotton; c.3500 maize c. 3200
Amazon pottery the earliest known in Americas c. 4000

Africa : First towns in Egypt c. 3500
King Menes unites Egypt, with Memphis as capital c. 4000
Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt c. 3100
Flutes, clarinets used in Egypt c. 2500

Recorded history begins when Mesopotamian scribes devise the first system of writing.