Not playing at the moment but just for chits and giggles (no balls needed):
9000 BC (BCE for the PC brigade) was the end of the last ice age and the start of the stone tools/agriculture period - The start of the farming (agrarian) period which changed everything, and was only usurped by the Industrial Revolution
Now OK arguments over places like Atlantis / homo sapien ancestors / spots here and there exist but 9,000 BC is where what we know now basically got going:)
Also ALCOHOL..(Beer?)
The earliest known alcoholic beverage is a 9,000-year-old Chinese concoction made from rice
EDIT:
Congrats on 9000 and nice thread:)