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Timeline of the far future. Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant. While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.
- Time Pyramid
The Zeitpyramide (lit. ' time pyramid ') is a work of public...
- Boltzmann Brain
Ludwig Boltzmann, after whom Boltzmann brains are named. The...
- Memory of Mankind
Memory of Mankind (MOM) is a preservation project funded in...
- Future of an Expanding Universe
From the present to about 10 14 (100 trillion) years after...
- 5D Optical Data Storage
5D optical data storage (also branded as Superman memory...
- Snap-10A
SNAP-10A (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, aka Snapshot...
- Milankovitch Cycle
Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of...
- Far Future in Religion
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About...
- Location of Earth
Knowledge of the location of Earth has been shaped by 400...
- Novopangaea
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About...
- Time Pyramid
34th century BC. 33rd century BC. 32nd century BC. 31st century BC. The 4th millennium BC spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC. Some of the major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the Bronze Age and the invention of writing, which played a major role in starting recorded history .
4th millennium BC. The 4th millennium BC saw major changes in human culture. It marked the beginning of the Bronze Age and of writing . The city states of Sumer and the kingdom of Egypt were started and grew to prominence. Agriculture spread widely across Eurasia.
A millennium (pl. millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky).Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration and at later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after the start point.
The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD 1 356 182.5 – 1 721 425.5). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity .
The 10th millennium BC spanned the years 10,000 BC to 9001 BC (c. 12 ka to c. 11 ka). It marks the beginning of the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic via the interim Mesolithic (Northern Europe and Western Europe) and Epipaleolithic (Levant and Near East) periods, which together form the first part of the Holocene epoch that is generally believed to have begun c. 9700 BC (c. 11 ...
Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western and Northern Europe during the 3rd millennium BC. [1] The earliest kurgans date to the 4th millennium BC in the Caucasus , [2] and some researchers associate these with the Indo-Europeans . [3]
