Historical Bias: How Humans View Violence and Inequality from Foraging Society to the Industrial Age (ian Morris History of Civilization Series)
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This is a history of the evolution of human values that spans 20,000 years. It tells how mankind's views on "violence" and "inequality" have quietly but inevitably changed during this vast historical period. In this book, world-renowned historian Ian Morris boldly proposes that it is the ability of humans to obtain food, fuel and other material energy that determines the shape of society and the values that match it. Therefore, the values of each era are what they need and are inevitable for social development: In a foraging society with material scarcity, ethnic groups regard survival as their first priority and do not hesitate to frequently use violence to protect their resources; in agricultural societies, settled life gives people the opportunity to accumulate more material energy, and they long for stability and accept the quiet life created by the hierarchy... Survival, reproduction, and development, these values that keep pace with the times ensure the further accumulation of material energy and push human society to a higher level. With extraordinary insight and advanced awareness, Ian Morris combines the research results of archaeology, geography and biology from a macro perspective to discuss how material forces quietly affect and then shake the culture, values and beliefs that humans have upheld for 20,000 years, and reflects on the possibility that humans are paving the way for their own extinction.
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