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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | Some ninety royal servants, including soldiers, grooms and female musicians, are buried alive in the tomb of a royal couple at Ur | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The water buffalo, domesticated somewhere in southeast Asia, features on the seals of the Indus civilization | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The elephant is tamed in the Indus civilization | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The red jungle fowl is domesticated as poultry in southeast Asia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Jews adopt a long-established Egyptian ritual - the circumcision of boys | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia | |
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| c. 1450 BC |
| | | Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| 399 BC |
| | | Socrates, convicted in Athens of impiety, is sentenced to death and drinks the hemlock | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Tea, now well established as a drink, features in a Chinese dictionary | |
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