Rice, wheat and maize were domesticated roughly 9,000 to 11,000 years ago. According to the FAO, these three plants alone still provide about half of humanity's plant-based food energy, even though thousands of edible species exist. Every day, you probably eat the result of breeding that began in the Neolithic.
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.