You know, we tend to think of bronze evolving in the middle east, but metallurgy

You know, we tend to think of bronze evolving in the middle east, but metallurgy begins with copper in Serbia/Bulgaria during the late neolithic, and spreads west to spain, and north to british isles.

So both the wheel and metallurgy begin in europe (or at least, around the black sea).

So again, as far as I know, the ‘special event’ in human history happens around the black sea.

Sea levels in northern europe reached todays levels by 6000bc. They are using copper for decoration in 6000bc, and we have copper instruments from 5500bc, and the Black Sea deluge happens in 5600 BC.