7th millennium BC

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The 7th millennium BC spanned the years 7000 BC to 6001 BC (c. 9000 – c. 8000 years before present). While the global climate entered the Holocene climatic optimum during the first half of the millennium, much of the Northern Hemisphere cooled during the latter half, due to cooling from the Siberian High and especially the 8.2-kiloyear event, the latter caused by the collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet into the North Atlantic over several centuries. The Neolithic Expansion saw agriculture, pottery, and Neolithic technologies spread from the Fertile Crescent into western Anatolia and Southeastern Europe by the end of the millennium. Agricultural cultures are known to have emerged in Central Asia, as well as at Mehrgarh in Pakistan. In East Asia, sedentary rice and millet cultivation spread across the Yangtze and Yellow River basins, while pottery spread into Korea. Pastoralism and pottery spread into eastern North Africa during the 7th millennium BC, while migratory populations in the Americas...

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