With guest appearances by Thomas Jefferson, Scarlet O’Hara and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Īnd there’s plenty more genre-bending to enjoy in this book. The cunning Mephisto shows them how to entrap humans, King Hammurabi lays down the law, and Confucius explains harmonious society. Fiction – are all back to travel the length and breadth of human history. Saraswati, Cindy and Bill (turned farmers), Detective Lopez, and Dr. Sound sombre? Not with this cast of entertaining characters, returning from Volume I to explore the Agricultural Revolution. Volume II of Sapiens: A Graphic History tells the story of how we took over the world how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition.
Twelve thousand years ago, we humans fell into a trap. This is the story of how wheat took over the world how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires and how war, plague, famine, and inequality became an intractable feature of the human condition.Volume two of Sapiens: A Graphic History: the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution-when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if humanity's major woes-war, plague, famine and inequality-originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of the fantasy of productivity and efficiency? What if by seeking to control plants and animals, humans ended up being controlled by kings, priests, and Kafkaesque bureaucracy? Volume 2 of Sapiens: A Graphic History-The Pillars of Civilization explores a crucial chapter in human development: the Agricultural Revolution.
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