humanity.exe

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - bigbang.exe
3. Chapter Two - Stars, Rocks, Water, Life
4. Chapter Three - Primates Start Getting Ideas
5. Chapter Four - Fire, Tools, and Shit Gets Real
6. Chapter Five - Sumerians: “Let’s Write This Down”
7. Chapter Six - Egypt: “Build Big or Die Trying”
8. Chapter Seven - Indus Valley: The Quiet Goat
9. Chapter Eight - China: River Kings and Bronze Bling
10. Chapter Nine - Minoans, Mycenaeans, and “Oops, a Volcano”
11. Chapter Ten - Mesopotamia Goes to War (Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria)
12. Chapter Eleven - Hebrews: A People, a Promise
13. Chapter Twelve - Persia: The First Boss Level
14. Chapter Thirteen - Greece: City-States & Philosophers
15. Chapter Fourteen - Alexander: Blitz, Break, Bounce
16. Chapter Fifteen - India Goes Epic: Vedas to Maurya
17. Chapter Sixteen - Qin China: Wall It Off
18. Chapter Seventeen - Han China: Bureaucracy and Silk

Excerpt

PROLOGUE BEFORE THERE WAS history, there was nothing. Then some shit happened. No one knows why. Maybe it was a quantum burp. Maybe it was God. Maybe it was a cosmic fluke so statistically improbable that calling it a “miracle” is just math’s way of crying. Either way, boom. Big one. And from that first flash of light came all of this: time, matter, gravity, stars, sex, war, Wi-Fi, microwave burritos, and you, reading this book, wondering how we got here and if it was worth it. This book is the full install. Not a textbook. Not a TED Talk. Not a slow, boring walk through 5,000 years of pottery and treaties. This is you, grabbing the scroll of human history and watching the whole timeline...