When you zoom out further, you might mark humankind’s progress a little differently like Yuval Harari does in Sapiens:
1. Cognitive Revolution (~70,000 years ago)
• Rise of abstract thinking and complex language • Enabled shared myths and large-scale cooperation
• Shift from foraging to farming • Led to food surpluses, social hierarchies, and sedentary life
• Formation of empires,
• Created large-scale political and cultural systems
• Birth of modern science and empirical inquiry • Fueled technological progress, capitalism, and global dominance
When you zoom out further, you might mark humankind’s progress a little differently like Yuval Harari does in Sapiens:
1. Cognitive Revolution (~70,000 years ago)
2. Agricultural Revolution (~10,000 years ago) 3. Unification of Humankind (last few thousand years) global religions, and trade networks 4. Scientific Revolution (~500 years ago) by andsoitis 5 minutes ago