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
- 3,760 years -- time since alphabetic writing emerges
- 3,800 years -- time since Bronze Age ends, [Iron Age begins]?
- 4,500 years -- time since horse domesticated in China
- 5,300 years -- time since Sumerians develop cuneiform writing
- 5,400 years -- time since Neolithic Age ends, Bronze Age begins
- 6,000 years -- half-life of Carbon-14
- 10,000 years -- time since city of Jericho founded
- 10,000 years -- time since end of Pleistocene Epoch
- 10,000 years -- time since beginning of Holocene Epoch
- 12,000 years -- time since beginning of Neolithic Age
- longer times