To help compare
orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10
11 seconds and 10
12 seconds (3,200 years and 32,000 years)
- shorter times
- 12,000 years ago -- Neolithic Age begins
- 10,000 years -- time since beginning of Holocene Epoch
- 10,000 years -- time since end of Pleistocene Epoch
- 10,000 years ago -- city of Jericho founded
- 5,400 years ago -- Neolithic Age ends, Bronze Age begins
- 5,300 years ago -- Sumerians develop cuneiform writing
- 4,500 years ago -- horse domesticated in China
- 3,800 years ago -- Bronze Age ends, Iron Age begins
- 3,760 years ago -- Alphabetic writing emerges