- c. 3500 BCE — Africa:
- c. 3500–2000 BCE — Asia:
The proto-urban settlement of Sarazm
In the Zeravshan valley near Penjikent, Sarazm grows into one of the oldest proto-urban settlements in Central Asia, a centre of metallurgy and long-distance trade, later inscribed as Tajikistan's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (2010).
Era: Sogdiana, Bactria and the Silk Road
Sources: Proto-urban Site of Sarazm — World Heritage List · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies · Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- c. 3200 BCE — Asia:
The kingdom of Elam and the city of Susa
Elam, one of the earliest civilisations of the region, flourishes around its capital Susa in south-western Iran, trading and warring with Mesopotamia until Susa is sacked by the Assyrians around 647 BCE.
Era: Elam and the Achaemenid Empire
Sources: Elam — ancient region, Iran · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Susa · World History Encyclopedia
- c. 3100 BCE — Africa:
FormationThe 4th millennium BCE
Formation in the 4th millennium BCE
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 4th millennium BCE — 4 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 3500 BCE
- Latest
- 3100 BCE
- Africa
- 2
- Asia
- 2
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.