Events
- The Sahara Desert starts to form from semi-arid savannah, through desertification.
- c. 3500 BC, First known zoo at Hierakonpolis.
- c. 3400 BC, Sumerian temple record keepers redesign the stamp seal in the form of a cylinder.
- c. 3500 BC, first discovered writing ever, located in Sumeria, thus starting what is technically considered history.
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