Timeline of Middle Eastern history.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org
| NEOLITHIC PERIOD | |||
| 10th millennium BCE | |||
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| PRE ADAMIC PERIOD | |||
| 10000 | Earliest neolithic sanctuaries at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey | ||
| 9300 | First cultivating of wild emmer in Netiv HaGdud and other sites in Jordan by hunter gatherers | ||
| 9th millennium BCE | |||
| 9000 | 7000 | First domestication of sheep in Mesopotamia | |
| 8500 | First domestication of the cow (taurine line from the aurochs near Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Turkey and Dja’de el-Mughara in northern Iraq. | ||
| 8400 | 8100 | First settlements at Nevali Cori in Turkey | |
| 8200 | 7650 | First domestication of emmer wheat near Damascus, Syria | |
| 8th millennium BCE | |||
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| 8000 | Human settlements at Sagalassos in southwest Turkey | ||
| First domestication of goats from the bezoar ibex in Iran | |||
| First domestication of einkorn wheat near Karaca Dağ in southeast Turke | |||
| First domestication of Durum wheat near Karaca Dağ in the Levant and the Ethiopian Highlands | |||
| 7500 | Çatalhöyük, very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia | ||
| 7000 | Jarmo, one of the oldest agricultural communities, in northern Iraq | ||
| 7th millennium BCE | |||
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| 7000 | 6500 | Early undecorated, unglazed and low-fired pottery in Hassuna | |
| 6000 | 4000 | Invention of the potter’s wheel in Mesopotamia | |
| 6th millennium BCE | |||
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| 6000 | First Irrigation and flood control in Mesopotamia and Egypt | ||
| 6000 | 4300 | First sail boats in Mesopotamia | |
| 5600 | Black Sea floods according to the Black Sea deluge theory | ||
| CREATION & ADAMIC PERIOD | |||
| 5509 | Date of creation according to the Byzantine calendar | ||
| 5500 | First large scale agriculture by the Sumerians and in the valley of the Nile | ||
| 5403 | Expulsion from the Garden of Eden according to the Genealogies of Genesis | ||
| 5100 | First Temples in South Mesopotamia | ||
| 5th millennium BCE | |||
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| 4500 | Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia | ||
| 4570 | 4250 | Merimde culture on the Nile | |
| 4400 | 4000 | Badari culture on the Nile | |
| 4000 | First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia | ||
| Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast | |||
