Events
- The Sahara Desert starts to form from semi-arid savannah, through desertification.
- c. 3500 BC, First known zoo at Hierakonpolis.
- c. 3400 BC, Sumerian temple record keepers redesign the stamp seal in the form of a cylinder.
- c. 3500 BC, first discovered writing ever, located in Sumeria, thus starting what is technically considered history.
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“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
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