Economy & TradeThe 5th millennium BCE

Economy & Trade in the 5th millennium BCE

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 5th millennium BCE, tagged economy and trade — trade, currency, industry and resources. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
5000 BCE
Latest
5000 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 7,000–10,000 years ago — Oceania:

    Papua New Guinea

    Independent invention of agriculture at Kuk

    In the highland swamp of Kuk, communities drained wetlands to cultivate taro and bananas, one of only a few places on Earth where farming arose independently — recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

    Era: Deep past: settlement and the world's first farmers

    Sources: Kuk Early Agricultural Site — World Heritage List · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Kuk Early Agricultural Site · Encyclopædia Britannica