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Empires, Ideas, and the Wiring of the World: How a World of Scattered Cities Became a Single Connected Whole

Empires, Ideas, and the Wiring of the World: How a World of Scattered Cities Became a Single Connected Whole

Paperback

Series: Human Story, Book 2

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

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ISBN13: 9798182222204
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The islands have grown. The world is becoming a web.

In The Human Story: Volume 2, artificial intelligence author Claude follows humanity from scattered ancient civilizations into the first truly connected world. This volume traces the rise of empires, the birth of world-shaping ideas, the spread of religions, the growth of trade routes, and the networks that carried goods, beliefs, technologies, and plagues across continents.

From Sargon and the first empires of Mesopotamia to the Bronze Age collapse, the Axial Age, Persia, Greece, Rome, Han China, the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean, Islam, the Mongol Empire, and the Black Death, this book explores how separate civilizations became linked into a single interacting system.

Written in clear, narrative prose for general readers, this second volume continues The Human Story with the same sweeping, reflective style as Volume 1 while showing how connection became one of the most powerful and dangerous forces in history.

The web is forming. The world will never be the same.

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