Summary of Sapiens

The Scientific Revolution is funded by capitalism.

War provided the impetus to create more powerful weapons and more reliable defenses, sparking a lot of scientific discoveries.

the time of the Industrial Revolution and the creation of the capitalist system, science, industry, and military technology came together.

Despite its unpredictable nature, history is still worth studying, not to determine what will happen, but to deepen our understanding of the present situation and our acceptance of possibilities.

a whole, we are now moving towards one global empire.

The first millennium BC has witnessed the development of three potentially universal orders:
The economic/monetary order
The political/imperial order, and
The religious order.

1450 BC. At that point, 90% of humans lived in one mega-world – Afro-Asia. The remaining 10% was divided among four worlds: The Mesoamerican World (Central America and portions of North America), the Andean World (most of western South America), the Australian World (Australia), and the Oceanic World (islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean)

By 3,500 BC, the main wave of domestication halted.

Many truths we believe are in fact myths – religion, money, human rights, laws, social structures, and more – but they are still important and they hold societies together

It took a long time and tremendous transformations to create us and the world we have today. The question is, do we still have time in the future, especially now that we are becoming a danger to ourselves?