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From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareEmpires unify huge territories by force and administration. They collect taxes, build…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareMoney is not metal or paper. It is trust at scale: a…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareCultures change, collide, and sometimes fuse, yet there is a direction to…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareIf imagined orders are powerful, they also produce imagined hierarchies. Class, gender,…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareAs villages became towns and towns became empires, human memory hit a…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareLarge societies require a shared order, and the shared order is imagined.…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareThe agricultural shift is often praised as progress, but it can be…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareWhen sapiens expanded into new regions, the landscape did not merely gain…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareAfter the cognitive leap, there was never a single “natural” way to…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareSapiens did not win because its muscles were stronger or its tools…

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari — ← Back to chapter overviewShareLong before kingdoms and scriptures, there were only physics, chemistry, and biology:…