Approximate date
In the Fertile Crescent people sow wheat and barley and tame sheep and goats. Villages like Jericho grow into the first towns.
How it touches Islam The Quran asks people to look at their food: rain poured down, the earth split open, grain made to grow (80:24-27).
Source: History
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
