When the first farmers of the Near East began storing grain, mice flocked in, followed by wildcats. Genetics shows our pet cats descend from that African and Near Eastern wildcat. In Cyprus, a cat buried near a human about 9,500 years ago shows the partnership started early: cats largely domesticated themselves.
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.