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Could you expand on that 'etc.'?
Those two items seem to me to completely fill their classes of comparables, so there is no 'cetera'.
Sure-- a full-scale nuclear war that collapsed civilization and technology but didn't actually kill every living human would count.
In terms of less grandiose things, if the actual lived experience of being a human changed dramatically with the the invention of important and novel emotions or social structures, I would consider that a fundamental change. Some argue that this actually happened during the medieval period and that romantic love didn't exist before then, but I'm highly skeptical of this claim for multiple reasons.