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Comment author: SilentCal 02 October 2014 04:10:25PM 3 points [-]

I had a longer progression in mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_tallest_buildings_in_the_world#1300.E2.80.93present), the idea being that steel and industry were a similar discontinuity.

Though it looks like these examples are really just pointing to the idea of agriculture and industry as the two big discontinuities of known history.