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A Brief History of Humankind Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Contributed by Tereasa Jacob
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Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
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Chapter Summary
Chapter 1
In this topic, Prof. Harari uses the Big Bang theory.  According to him, approximately 13.5 billion years ago, space, time energy and matter began to...
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Chapter 2
In this chapter, the focus is on the differences in knowledge or brains between other human species. The East Africa had many sapiens, which pushed ot...
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Chapter 3
According to Prof. Harari, to understand nature, psychology and history of humans, it is important to look into it from the perspective of their hunte...
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Chapter 4
According to Harari, (59) “the sea barrier prevented not just humans but also many other Afro-Asian animals and plants from reaching this ‘Outer W...
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Chapter 5
In a nutshell, the chapter indicates that 2.5 million years ago, humans gathered plants and hunted animals to feed themselves. According to the chapte...
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Chapter 6
The previous chapter discussed the beginning of agricultural revolution, which some opinion leaders set the world to absolute ruin. When agricultural ...
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Chapter 7
The chapter generally looks into the memory system of human beings. The memory of the Homo sapiens stores a lot of information, and thus the sapiens m...
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Chapter 8
In this chapter, Prof. Harari is investigating how mankind organized themselves in what he describes as “mass-cooperation networks.”  According t...
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Chapter 9
In the post-agricultural revolution period, the human societies became more complex. Also, these societies became larger and the imagined order became...
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Chapter 10
Generally, the chapter discusses the history of currency. Trade was happening and it was barter trade, but later gold and silver were introduced. Acco...
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Chapter 11
In his argument, Prof. Harari believes that there is no justice in history. It is from that belief that the imperial visions were pursued by some empi...
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Chapter 12
The chapter discusses religion and believes that religions like Islam had their sacred places such as Mecca. In the past religion seemed to unite peop...
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Chapter 13
The chapter claims that the universal religion, empires and commerce brought the world together and that is why today the world is global. The culture...
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Chapter 14
The chapter simply discusses that the human beings had made numerous inventions and innovations. But, there was 99.99 percent ignorance about organism...
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Chapter 15
In a nutshell, this chapter looks into how super nation countries used science to stamp their control on the earth. The astronomers took an initiative...
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Chapter 16
The chapter in a nutshell discusses capitalism and notes that the adoption of money was believed to facilitate constructions of buildings and empires....
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Chapter 17
In summary, the chapter wholesomely discusses the rise of industries. In the previous chapter, business people were making money from their businesses...
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Chapter 18
The previous chapter describes how the industrial revolution began. Chapter 17, indicates that people started using energy and raw materials to produc...
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Chapter 19
This chapter is debatable in the sense that it raises the question whether people are happy and contented due to agricultural, scientific and industri...
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Chapter 20
The chapter generally asserts that sapiens are subject to natural selection processes, chemical reactions and physical forces like other organisms. Th...
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