7000s

7000s refers to the set of years from 7000 to 7999 within a given calendar era. It is not an officially defined historical period, but a convenient label for a broad time span. The exact interpretation depends on whether one is speaking in the Common Era (CE/AD) or Before Common Era (BCE).

When used for CE dates, the 7000s denote a far-future interval—the 8th millennium of the Gregorian calendar—well beyond present-day history. When used for BCE dates, the 7000s would refer to a prehistoric or protohistoric timeframe several millennia before the start of the era most people use today, though dating conventions for BCE are context dependent.

In scholarship and fiction alike, the term is typically avoided for precise dating and replaced with a stable notation such as 7000–7999 CE for future planning or 7000–6991 BCE for ancient contexts, depending on the system used. In non-temporal uses, 7000s can simply designate a numerical range, as in catalog numbers, model series, or postal/area codes, where the same digits are used without calendar connotations.

See also: millennia, centuries, decades, ordinal ranges, chronology.