6th millennium BC
millennium between 6000 BC and 5001 BC
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The 6th millennium BC is the thousand-year period from 6000 BC to 5001 BC, a time when early human societies were transitioning from hunting and gathering to farming and settling in permanent villages. This era matters because it saw the beginning of agriculture and civilization in regions like the Fertile Crescent, which fundamentally changed how humans lived and organized themselves.
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The 6th millennium BC spanned the years 6000 BC to 5001 BC (c. 8 ka to c. 7 ka). It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this millennium and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis. The only exceptions are the felling dates for some construction timbers from Neolithic wells in Central Europe.
This millennium is reckoned to mark the end of the global deglaciation, which had followed the Last Glacial Maximum and caused sea levels to rise by some 60 m (200 ft) over a period of about 5,000 years.