5,000 B.C. Karanovo Culture east Balkans, Roumania 5,000 B.C.
and Thrace 6200-5100. *Ch'ing-lien kang Culture c.5000-4700*
Cucuteni Culture; Moldavia, w. Ukraine 5000-3500 Farming in China rice, millet & gourds.
Gold & copper worked in Balkans c.5000.
__________ Mining c.4500; casting c.3500.
Cattle as plough animals; lower Danube c.4500.
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300 A.D. Bowling part of religious ritual in German Constantine creates East Roman Empire 330. Sankhya in India c.300. Buddhist influence from India in China c.300. 300 A.D.
monasteries c.300.
Constantine the Great baptized at death 337. Gupta era in India 320-450; Wet rice agriculture spreads throughout Japan c.300.
driven out 370. Huns invade Europe 360, Russia in 376. Puja (worship). Buddhism becomes state religion of China 379.
Mahabharata finished c.350.
Rome evacuates legions from Britain 383-430. Christianity becomes state religion of Rome 391. Toba Wei (Turks) re-unify much of China: 386-534.
Saint Ninian's mission to Picts c.400. Alaric (Visigoths) invades Greece & Balkans Sakas defeated 388.
400 A.D. 396-398, Italy 401, sacks Rome 410. 400 A.D.
German invasion of Gaul & Spain isolates Alaric burns Goddess sanctuary at Eleusis 396: Nepal pays tribute to India c.400. Earliest records of Japanese history;
Britain from Rome 406. End of Paganism. They adopt Chinese script 400-405.
Kumara Gupta I;
Picts & Scots expelled from south Britain Vandals on the move; cross Rhine 406; Vedic horse sacrifice 415-454. Chinese Buddhism crystallizes 409.