The ancestors of the Māori, Polynesian voyagers, only reached New Zealand around 1250–1300 CE, when Oxford was already teaching students. It was one of the last large habitable lands untouched by humans. Birds ruled the islands, including moa, giants standing over three meters tall with necks outstretched.
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.