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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10¹¹ seconds and 10¹² seconds (3,200 years and 32,000 years) See also times of other orders of magnitude.

Shorter times (see also 2nd millennium BC)
3,200 years -- time since the Greek Dark Ages and the beginning of the Iron Age
3,800 years -- time since alphabetic writing emerged
4,500 years -- approximate time since the domestication of the horse
4,700 years -- estimated age of oldest living plant, a bristle-cone pine
5,300 years -- time since Sumerians developed cuneiform writing
5,400 years -- time since Neolithic Age ended and Bronze Age began
5,715 years -- half-life of Carbon-14
6,010 years -- age of the earth according to the calculation of Bishop Ussher (in 2006)
6,500 years [3500 in the Dutch version of Wikipedia] -- time since the invention of the wheel
7,370 years -- half life of americium-243
8,500 years -- half life of curium-245
10,000 years -- time since city of Jericho was 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
12,000 years -- time since the land ice left Denmark and southern Sweden
20,000 years -- approximate age of the Ishango Bone, the oldest known tally stick
20,300 years -- half life of niobium-94
21,000 years -- time since the Last Glacial Maximum
24,110 years -- half life of plutonium-239
25,000 years -- time since the first colonisation of North America
30,000 years -- approximate age of Haplogroup X (mtDNA) and Haplogroup I (mtDNA)
Longer times

Orders of magnitude (time), by powers of seconds
Negative powers	10⁻⁴⁴ s \| ... \| 10⁻²⁵ s \| 10⁻²⁴ s \| 10⁻²³ s \| 10⁻²² s \| 10⁻²¹ s \| 10⁻²⁰ s \| 10⁻¹⁹ s \| 10⁻¹⁸ s \| 10⁻¹⁷ s \| 10⁻¹⁶ s \| 10⁻¹⁵ s \| 10⁻¹⁴ s \| 10⁻¹³ s \| 10⁻¹² s \| 10⁻¹¹ s \| 10⁻¹⁰ s \| 10⁻⁹ s \| 10⁻⁸ s \| 10⁻⁷ s \| 10⁻⁶ s \| 10⁻⁵ s \| 10⁻⁴ s \| 10⁻³ s \| 10⁻² s \| 10⁻¹ s
Positive powers	1 s \| 10 s \| 10² s \| 10³ s \| 10⁴ s \| 10⁵ s \| 10⁶ s \| 10⁷ s \| 10⁸ s \| 10⁹ s \| 10¹⁰ s \| 10¹¹ s \| 10¹² s \| 10¹³ s \|10¹⁴ s \| 10¹⁵ s \| 10¹⁶ s \| 10¹⁷ s \| 10¹⁸ s \| 10¹⁹ s and more