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ID Date Discovery / Invention Individual Location (Empire) Notes Deps Type (Discovery/Invention/Social/Technique) Soft/hard? Field URL
biped 4000000 BCE Bipedal species emerged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedalism#Evolution_of_human_bipedalism
stone-tool 2000000 BCE Stone tools used biped Invention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool
fire 500000 BCE Fire tamed stone-tool Invention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
religion 200000 BCE Religion fire Social Soft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion
art 20000 BCE Art stone-tool Social Soft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_art
bow 20000 BCE Bows and arrows used stone-tool Invention War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_archery#Prehistory
oil-lamp 20000 BCE Oil lamps invented stone-tool Invention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_lamp
animal-dom 12000 BCE Animals domesticated Not horses. Maybe dogs and oxen? biped Technique Agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

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borismus / readwise_to_markdown.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import datetime
import dateutil.parser
import json
import os
import requests
import sys
import time
import optparse
function getBoundingBox(folded) {
const points = folded.vertices_coords.map(p => [p[0], p[1]]);
const boundary = ear.polygon(points);
return boundary.enclosingRectangle();
}