5th Millennium BC


This period will be divided into periods of 200 years.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience History Antiquity Early 5th millennium BC Early mid 5th millennium BC Mid 5th millennium BC Late mid 5th millennium BC Late 5th millennium BC

This period will be divided into periods of 200 years.

Early 5th millennium BC

Events of the 50th century BC and 49th century BC are not well known.

Early Mid 5th millennium BC

Events of the 48th century BC and 47th century BC are not well known.

Mid 5th millennium BC

Events of the 46th century BC and 45th century BC are not well known.

Late Mid 5th millennium BC

Events of the 44th century BC and 43rd century BC are not well known.

Late 5th millennium BC

Events of the 42nd century BC and 41st century BC are not well known.


Other History This is preceded by prehistory including early prehistory and middle prehistory, most immediately by late prehistory. Other Antiquity. The 5th millennium BC is is followed by other periods of antiquity, immediately by the 4th millennium BC. The 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early 1st millennium BC can be connected.	Links to other sites: Not yet developed.
Classical and medieval history Early classical history including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical history including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected.Early medieval history including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 15th century, and 15th century can be connected. Modern history The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. Knowledge of this period in the 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. Knowledge of this period in the 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century was minimal. Significant progress was made in the 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century. The 20th century including the early 20th century can be connected. The early mid 20th century including the early 1920s, late 1920s, early 1930s, and late 1930s can be connected. The mid 20th century including the early 1940s, late 1940s, early 1950s, and late 1950s can be connected. The late mid 20th century including the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s can be connected. The late 20th century including the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected. Early 21st century The early 2000s including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 can be connected. The late 2000s including 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 can be connected. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 including the 1st quarter 2011, 2nd quarter 2011, 3rd quarter 2011, and 4th quarter 2011 can be connected. 2012 can be connected. The future including the near future, middle future, and far future can be examined. Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine events of the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC. Institutions Religion Particular religions at this point are mostly pagan. Asian pagan religions are easiest to follow. European pagan, African pagan, and American Indian pagan religions are obscure at this point. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be considered. Religious practice can be conncted. Religious beliefs can be examined to some extent. Government Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government might be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession might be considered. Government structure including forms of government, heds of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judical systems, and politcal parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including Asiatic law and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical services, construction, and agriculture can be considered. Economic activity including consumption, distribution and exchange, and producation can be connected. Education Education seems to have been mostly informal during this period Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums might be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families might be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communication occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food occupations can be connected. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment, social interaction, and institutional customs will be significant. Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic had not developed but can be applied. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement was only beginning to develop, but can be applied. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, types and genres, and forms is difficult to identify, Oral tradition may be connected, but is poorly remembered. Graphic arts including printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world is important for studies of this period. Material culture Miscellaneous artifacts including musical instruments, sculpture, toys, medicines, and other actifacts can be connected. Communication technology, mostly including graphic communication can be connected. Transportation technology including water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be considered. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles cam be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Buildings including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and building materials can be considered. Industrial technology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, weaponry, chemical technology, fuels, and tools can be connected. Anthropology Particular groups may be useful. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be significant. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will also be significant. Human ecology including environmental influence on people, relationships with other life, and human influence on the environment is significant. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and births may be applicable. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be connected. Personal studies I do not have any biography from this period. General principles from psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavioral patterns, mind, and behavioral elements may be applicable. Studies of the human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected. Science Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, and organism biology may be applicable. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology may be useful. Astronomy including stellar astronomy and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and substances can be considered. Physics including the structure of matter, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be considered.

Other History

This is preceded by prehistory including early prehistory and middle prehistory, most immediately by late prehistory.

Other Antiquity. The 5th millennium BC is is followed by other periods of antiquity, immediately by the 4th millennium BC. The 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early 1st millennium BC can be connected.

Links to other sites: Not yet developed.

Classical and medieval history

Early classical history including the 5th century BC, 4th century BC, 3rd century BC, 2nd century BC, and 1st century BC can be connected. Late classical history including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected.Early medieval history including the 6th century, 7th century, 8th century, 9th century, and 10th century can be connected. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 15th century, and 15th century can be connected.

Modern history

The 16th century including the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century can be connected. Knowledge of this period in the 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected. Knowledge of this period in the 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century was minimal. Significant progress was made in the 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century.

The 20th century including the early 20th century can be connected. The early mid 20th century including the early 1920s, late 1920s, early 1930s, and late 1930s can be connected. The mid 20th century including the early 1940s, late 1940s, early 1950s, and late 1950s can be connected. The late mid 20th century including the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s can be connected. The late 20th century including the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s can be connected.

Early 21st century

The early 2000s including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 can be connected. The late 2000s including 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 can be connected. The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 including the 1st quarter 2011, 2nd quarter 2011, 3rd quarter 2011, and 4th quarter 2011 can be connected. 2012 can be connected.

The future including the near future, middle future, and far future can be examined.

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine events of the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC.

Institutions

Religion

Particular religions at this point are mostly pagan. Asian pagan religions are easiest to follow. European pagan, African pagan, and American Indian pagan religions are obscure at this point. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be considered. Religious practice can be conncted. Religious beliefs can be examined to some extent.

Government

Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government might be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession might be considered. Government structure including forms of government, heds of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judical systems, and politcal parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including Asiatic law and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical services, construction, and agriculture can be considered. Economic activity including consumption, distribution and exchange, and producation can be connected.

Education

Education seems to have been mostly informal during this period Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums might be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families might be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communication occupations, transportation occupations, building occupations, and food occupations can be connected. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment, social interaction, and institutional customs will be significant.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic had not developed but can be applied. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement was only beginning to develop, but can be applied. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, types and genres, and forms is difficult to identify, Oral tradition may be connected, but is poorly remembered. Graphic arts including printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world is important for studies of this period.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts including musical instruments, sculpture, toys, medicines, and other actifacts can be connected. Communication technology, mostly including graphic communication can be connected. Transportation technology including water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be considered. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles cam be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Buildings including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and building materials can be considered. Industrial technology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, weaponry, chemical technology, fuels, and tools can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups may be useful. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography will be significant. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will also be significant. Human ecology including environmental influence on people, relationships with other life, and human influence on the environment is significant. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and births may be applicable. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interaction, and social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

I do not have any biography from this period. General principles from psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavioral patterns, mind, and behavioral elements may be applicable. Studies of the human body including form and appearance, life cycle, disease, body functions, and body systems can be connected.

Science

Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, and organism biology may be applicable. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology may be useful. Astronomy including stellar astronomy and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and substances can be considered. Physics including the structure of matter, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be considered.