- c. 8000 BC— Civilization, agriculture and hemp textile industries begin in Europe and Asia
- c. 8000 BC—Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Peloponnese, continues. First evidence of seed and animal stocking
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud, Norway are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
- c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
- c. 8000 BC—North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
- c. 8000 BC—Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into present-day Southwest United States.
- c. 8000 BC—Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America (from 9th millennium)
- c. 8000 BC—World population: 5,000,000[1]
- c. 7500 BC—Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland are constructed.
- c. 7500 BC—Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, is founded.
- c. 7500 BC—Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
- c. 7500 BC—Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
- c. 7370 BC—End of the large settlement at Jericho.
- c. 7200–5000 BC—Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres (120,000 m2).
8,000 BC
Cultivation of Grains
People start to grow crops along River Nile in Egypt, River Tigris, and Euphrates in Mesopotamia. The basic grains grown were wheat, rice, rye, oats, millet, and barley. Farming developed in the Middle East at around 6500 BC. The first known farming town was Jericho. The period from 8,000 B.C. to 1850 AD was known as the Age of Agriculture.
Jericho, first farming town in the world.
Hemp History
8000 BC - Present
Hemp is the ancient, eco-friendly fiber of the future. For over 5,000 years, hemp has been used for textiles, paper, building materials, fuel, food and personal care products. Hemp can be grown with little or no toxic chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides. Today hemp is grown all over the world. The crop is used to make over 25,000 consumer products. From hemp apparel and accessories to housewares and hempseed oil cosmetics, hemp is an eco-shopper's dream.
- 8000BC
- Civilization, agriculture and hemp textile industries begin in Europe and Asia.
- 3727BC
- Cannabis called a "superior" herb in the world's first medical text, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China.
- 1500BC
- Cannabis-using Scythians sweep through Europe and Asia, settle down everywhere, and invent the scythe.
