From Harari—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

In this chapter, the author talks about the hunter-gatherer stage of human civilization, before the agricultural revolution. This was a very long period compared to the other subsequent…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

In this chapter, the author talks about empires and their development throughout history. He notes that there is a stigma associated with empires. That they are inherently evil and exploitative. But he carefully…

From Harari—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This chapter (and this section of the book) starts discussing the Agricultural Revolution. I’ve heard that it’s a controversial period. Traditional scholarship says it was a great boon for human…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This chapter discussed another important symbol of human civilization, money. The author first went through the origin of the money, during hunter-gathering stage and then agricultural revolution. Next, the…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Previous chapter, the author asked the question of how the Sapiens have been able to collaborate with one another in a large group to accomplish a mission even they did not know each other. The…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

At the end of the first chapter, the author asked one question, what was the Sapiens’ secret of success? The author tended to guide us to believe the answer to such question is language we used. Perhaps, or…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This is the last chapter in part 1. The Cognitive Revolution. To put ourselves a bit in time axis, we are now in between 70,000 years ago (the beginning of the cognitive revolution) and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of…

From Harari—Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Harari wastes no time in jumping from the big bang to the origin of Homo Sapiens in the first few paragraphs. In the following sections, he talks about a variety of species in the Homo genus in…

From Harari — Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This chapter starts a new part in the book that describes how humankind started a progression of unification. The author says that the shared myths explained at length in previous chapters leads to unification…