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 agoOceania

    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