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Period in which the first agricultural practices were discovered and the nomadic lifestyle was abandoned to settle in small towns. -
Foundation of the first city called Uruk, in Sumeria, ancient Mesopotamia. -
Invention of writing and end of Prehistory. -
Plato founds the Academy of Athens. -
Burning of the Library of Alexandria. -
Beginning of the Middle Ages and obscurantism. -
Invention of the compass, in China. -
Columbus arrives in America. Beginning of the Modern Age. -
Nicholas Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory. -
The first steam engine is built and the Industrial Revolution begins. -
The Second Industrial Revolution begins. -
The USSR launches the first artificial satellite into orbit: Sputnik 1. -
The first personal computer is marketed under the IBM brand. -
90% of the human genome has been sequenced.