Humans invent leather shoes, perhaps in modern-day Armenia
The oldest leather shoe was found in a cave in Armenia and was about 5,500 years old. These simple shoes, made of a single piece of leather were stitched with leather.
Agriculture (10000 - 3000 B.C.E.)
The Sweet Track and Post Track causeways are built in Somerset Levels in modern-day England
The Sweet Track is a Neolithic timber walkway, located in the Somerset Levels, England. It was originally part of a network of tracks built to provide a dry path across the marshy ground.
The Egyptians and Phoenicians invent the sailboats
The Phoenicians and Egyptians sailed under cloth sails on single log and simple long narrow sailboats.
Feng shui developed in ancient China
Originating in China almost 6,000 years ago, Feng Shui, also referred to as “Geomancy”, literally means “wind” (Feng) and “water” (Shui).
First paved roads built in cities of Ur and Babylon
The oldest constructed roads discovered to date are in former Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq.
Humans begin using yeast to make bread, perhaps in Ancient Egypt
Baker’s yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used as a leavening agent in baking bread and bakery products.
Humans invent lost-wax casting, perhaps in modern-day Pakistan
Lost-wax casting is the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.
Humans of the Yangshao period in China produce silk for the first time
According to Confucian text, the discovery of silk production dates to about 2700 B.C.E., although archaeological records point to silk cultivation as early as the Yangshao period (5000-3000 B.C.E.).
The Kura–Araxes culture thrives in the Caucauses
The Kura–Araxes culture was a civilization that existed from about 4000 B.C.E. until about 2000 B.C.E. The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; it spread northward in Caucasus by 3000 B.C.E.
The Funnelbeaker culture flourishes in north-central Europe
The Funnelbeaker culture developed as a technological merger of local neolithic and mesolithic techno-complexes, introducing farming and husbandry as a major source of food to the pottery-using hunter-gatherers north of this line.