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Sapiens: From Animals to Gods

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Lesson 18: An Everlasting Revolution

Lesson 18

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2026-09-17

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Explain how the Industrial Revolution reduced Homo sapiens' dependence on natural ecosystems while triggering ecological crises and the extinction of other species.
Explain how industrial notions of time and timetables spread from factories into schools, hospitals, transportation, and everyday life.
Analyze how the state and the market took over the functions of family and close-knit communities, and the price of individual liberation.
Define "imagined communities" and explain how nations and mass consumers became vessels for modern emotional identity.

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