In 1507, in Saint-Dié in the Vosges, a small circle of scholars published a geography treatise along with a huge world map by Martin Waldseemüller. For the first time, the New World was labeled 'America', in honor of the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci. Ironically, Waldseemüller dropped the name from his later maps, but it was too late. The only known copy of the map was bought by the Library of Congress in 2003 for $10 million.
Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna, daughter of King Sargon of Akkad, became high priestess of the Moon god at Ur. She composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and put her name to them. She is the oldest person identified as the author of a literary work, about 1,500 years before Homer.
Squeeze Earth's 4.5 billion years into a single 24-hour day. Homo sapiens shows up around 11:59:54 p.m., roughly six seconds before midnight. All of written history, from Sumerian tablets to today, fits into the final tenth of a second. A cosmic blink.