7000 BC – agriculture had reached southern Europe with evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Aegean.
6500 BC – Evidence of cattledomestication in Turkey.[2] Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
6001 BC – Archaeological evidence from various sites on the Iberian Peninsula suggest the domestication of plants and animals.
6000 BC – Granary built in Mehrgarh for storage of excess food.
5500 BC – Céide Fields in Ireland are the oldest known field systems in the world, this landscape consists of extensive tracts of land enclosed by brick walls.[3]
5200 BC – In the heart of the Sahara Desert, several native species were domesticated, most importantly pearl millet, sorghum and cowpeas, which spread through West Africa and the Sahel. At this time the Sahara was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, it was far more moist and densely populated than today.
2600 BC – Large-scale commercial timbering of cedars in Phoenicia (Lebanon) for export to Egypt and Sumeria. Similar commercial timbering in South India.
^[Haneklaus, S., Lilienthal, H., Schnug, E., 2016. 25 years Precision Agriculture in Germany – a retrospective. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Precision Agriculture : July 31 – August 3, 2016, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.]