Human history – the 60-second lecture

University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors has summed up human history in 100 words.

Here are the first three bullet points (out of 10):

• First, tribes: tough life.

• The defaults beyond the intimate tribe were violence, aversion to difference, and slavery. Superstition: everywhere.

• Culture overcomes them partially.

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(Via Good Experience)