Standing up and apparently eating an apple
FIRE followed by that bone throw thing from 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cave art of animals and aliens
Effing up the Neanderthals. Karma: frozen to death on mountaintops
Domesticating animals, having like huts, learning how to farm
GODS, sacrifice and social structure
Papyrus, cuneiform, story telling.
Hammurabi writes "laws" on a rock.
JUDAISM is invented. Flaming bush, red sea, feast/famine, etc.
Pharaohs, warlords, epic poems, sea battles
The word "Trojan" is invented
EMPIRES rise and fall: Romans, Turks, you name it
BUDDHA sits under that tree
CHRISTIANITY pretty much takes over
ISLAM invents calligraphy, algebra and that Scheherezade chick
Voyages, mapping and conquering other lands across the sea
Bigger cities, plagues, rats. Plays, puppets and minstrels try to help out.
Astronomy, laws of physics and the human body
Guns, medicine, maps, manifest destiny
The industrial age, machines, factories
Little tiny child workers
Robber barons, trains, phones, electricity
BIGGER WARS with more WEAPONS
Math, science, psychology, relativity, penicillin and stuff
WORLD WARS with more weapons
Technology, bombs, atoms, bunsen burners
National Geographic is invented.
Communism is invented. Kills czars and virtually everybody else
SECOND WORLD WARS with more weapons
Commies "settle in" for the "long haul"
I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver
Space travel, moog synthesizers, LSD
REGIONAL WARS with chemical weapons
Bill Gates, Steve jobs, EMAIL
Little tiny child workers
Nano technology, string theory. Math + science reveals CRAZY stuff
GUERILLA WARS and splintering of nations/colonies/tribes
That movie Avatar is invented
The faint whisper, held by the minority, that maybe all is not what it
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