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Category: Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)

2+2= Imperialism

October 11, 2018 Tyler Patrick

According to Harari, science, empire, and capitalism are all liked by referring back to how our minds are fit to…

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The (not so) Holy Trinity

October 2, 2018 Owen Pendergast

Empire, science, and capitalism are all linked together according to Harari due to how they all seem benefit off of…

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Consequences of Growth

September 27, 2018 Mandy Hawkins 1 Comment

Harari describes that science, empire, and capitalism are directly linked through growth and are dependent on one another. Science fuels…

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Science, Empire, and the Pursuit of Capitalism

Cinnone Knight

Science, empire, and capitalism obviously manage to coexist as seen in centuries of evidence. Though the three coexist, are they…

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Capital Consequences

September 25, 2018 Natalie Carlson 5 Comments

In his book, Harari claims that Science, empire, and capitalism are linked because of how one can support the advancement…

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Money Makes the World Go ‘Round

Taylor Koth 4 Comments

Harari links science, empire and capitalism mainly by one thing: money. He spends a great deal of time explaining how…

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The Progression of Man

Conor Bianchi 4 Comments

Harari explains the feedback loop connecting science, empire and capitalism stating “Political and economic institutions provide the resources without which…

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Progress is in the eye of the Beholder

Hilary Rosa 4 Comments

The Europeans of the 16th century were smitten with this idea that the world was out there waiting to be…

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Science Empire and Capitalism but also Religion

Sydney Jones 2 Comments

The link between capitalism, empire, and science is described well in the Harari text. His main description is that these…

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Harari my Ferrari

Colby Darr 4 Comments

The pursuit of man often coincides with greed and power. Humankind has always been a species that wants to become…

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Progress Makes Perfect

September 24, 2018 Colleen May 1 Comment

According to Harari, science, empire, and capitalism are linked through the simple fact that the three different branches cannot happen…

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$cience, for Profit and Power

Jacob Kelley 3 Comments

One might suspect that science, empire and capitalism are three completely separate entities unrelated to one another. It is difficult…

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What Came First: The Science or The Progress?

Alex Sutherland 2 Comments

According to Harari, empires essentially didn’t exist until the scientific revolution. Before the scientific revolution, the closest thing to an…

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Harari’s Scientific Revolution

Hunter Strobel 2 Comments

In Harari’s eyes, there could be no scientific progress without capitalism and imperialism. Science is an inherently unbiased system, all…

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Capitalism-the beginning and end of humanity

Madelyn Hillis 2 Comments

Harari addresses the multifaceted relationship between science, technology, and fiscal institutions by describing the thing that all of these things…

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The impact of SEC (not the football conference)

John Jones 1 Comment

Science, empire, and capitalism are linked by nature of society, or perhaps by nature of people of the Western ideology…

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The Progress of Progress

Mathew Shea 2 Comments

According to Harari, “Science needs . . . the mutual reinforcement of politics and economics” (pg 250). When he says…

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Infatuated and Prosperous

Hannah Ludlow 1 Comment

Science, capitalism, and empire are linked in an endless cycle where one necessitates the others. Should any of these legs…

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We Want More

Mia Thomas 1 Comment

At the start of the Scientific Revolution, European scientists and conquerors both has the idea that knew knowledge, which in…

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The New Trinity

Conner Cross 2 Comments

In Part Four of his book, Harari addresses the Scientific Revolution, specifically the relationship between imperialism, capitalism, and science, and…

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Wait… Scurvy is related to Capitalism?

Emelyn Albright 2 Comments

Harari claims that science, empire and capitalism are linked because of the want or need for humans to explore and…

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The Bermuda Triangle

Jose Alarcon Cascales 1 Comment

According to Harari, these three elements are connected. Capitalism refers to an empire or a society that is, somehow, associated…

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Protected: Science, empire and capitalism: the ties that bind us

Anna

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What Builds a Tomorrow

Chance Ronning 1 Comment

Science can fuel, and be fueled by capitalism. A clear example of this is coal as an energy source. In…

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The Never Ending Cycle of Science, Empire and Capitalism

Tyler Krueger 2 Comments

According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are very closely connected. One great example that he details is the cook…

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The Webs of Wealth

Catherine Vejvoda 1 Comment

On page 278 of Sapiens, Harari concludes that it is hard to tell the difference between science and empire. He…

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The Holy Trinity of Progress: Science, Capitalism and Empire

Cole Satrom 1 Comment

Harari argues in his book that the key that unlocked our modern society, was the connection between science, capitalism and…

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Capitalistic Empire Strikes Back

Sage McCleary 2 Comments

1. According to Harari science, empire and capitalism are linked by the unification of humankind. Sapiens were working towards Globalization.…

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Science, Empire, and Capitalism: The Growth Trifecta

Jason Pichette

After a descriptive recap of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific revolutions, Harari now explains arguably the three biggest parts of…

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For profit or progress?

Kendra Fischer 1 Comment

Growth made during the past 500 years has been driven by the “loop between science, empire, and capital(ism)”, with each…

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Don’t bring a knife to gun fight.

Fritz Arnold 1 Comment

Science is what has brought us to where we are today. But it doesn’t progress by itself. It relies on…

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Do you wanna build an empire?

Dexter Jarrett 1 Comment

In Sapiens, Harari argues, “Money has been essential both for building empires and for promoting science” (305). Capitalistic investments are…

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Exponential Progress

Nick Leach 1 Comment

Looking at the relationship between science, empire and capitalism described in Harari’s text, it seems to me that he brings…

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Harari Part II: The Empire Strikes Back

Chris Tompkins

Science, Empire, and Capitalism, these three constructs all influenced, and continue to influence, one another. As Europeans of the 17th…

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An Economy of Progress

Noah Hense 1 Comment

The best way to summarize the relationship between capitalism, empire and science is through Harari’s own words. Namely, capitalism and…

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If You’re Not First, You’re Last

Shayne Utter 2 Comments

Similar to science and all facets of society, science, empire and capitalism, are strongly interconnected and in a constant relationship…

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Power and Progress: Imperialism, Capitalism, and the Scientific Revolution

Mary Hill Young

HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 9/24/18     Harari links the areas of…

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All Credit goes to Capitalism

Edward Cooke

  According to Harari, there is an essential link between Capitalism, empire, and science.  Harari contrasts the societies of east…

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Is death really a technical problem?

Linnea Fristam 1 Comment

Is death really a technical problem? Harari states that science is only happening if there is a ‘mutual reinforcement’ of…

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Capitalism, Empires, and Science?

Sophie Black 1 Comment

According to Harari, about 500 years ago is when humans really started to gain “unprecedented power”, mainly caused by something…

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Link-oln Park’s New Single: Science, Empire and Capitalism

Alex Judge

The link between science, empire and capitalism are obvious in many ways. After all, according to Harari, “We are living…

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We Grow, We Earn, We Discover: The Scientific-Empiristic-Capitalistic Link

Logan Vining

Harari effectively links science, empire, and capitalism through one basic diagram: a self-looping graph that moves from Power to Resources…

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Under the Rug of Process

Audrey Schied 1 Comment

According to Harari, money—which grows stupendously through capitalism—is “essential both for building empires and for promoting science” (Harari, p. 305).…

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Systems within Systems

Garrett Hartley

Reading about Harari’s ideas of how science, empire and capitalism have been closely linked through history has been really interesting…

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Death and Discovery

Sean Jungst

The first example that comes to mind of how scientific discovery was shaped by political and fiscal interests is the…

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Lopsided Progress

Ben Schwartz

Harari writes on the fundamental linking of science, empire, and capitalism that has fueled the past 500 years of human…

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Empire, Capitalism, and Science

Blaze Wiseman

In part 4 of Harari’s text, Sapiens, he describes how science, empire, and capitalism are linked together in the scientific…

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Progress is Ironic

Patrick Wolff

The advancement of science and economics beginning in the 16th century was not originally for the betterment of humanity or…

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The Widening Gyre

Katherine Stobie 2 Comments

As a core class last year, I took an architecture class that I hated. The only information I retained other…

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Wherever the Money Takes Me, Kitten.

Amanda Larson

Harari believes that science, capitalism, and empire together create a cycle of effect. He believes going out to find new…

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Capitalism Flexing on Everything with Technology

Cody Coffin

People always wonder how modern society in Europe got so far ahead of everyone else. According to Harari’s answer it’s…

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Science, Empire, and Money: The Trinity of Progress

Ty Gentry 1 Comment

According to Harari, the link between science, empire, and capitalism boils down to one main focus: progress. This progress comes…

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A Capitalistic Empire Allows Science to Make a Stronger Capitalistic Empire

Evan Scaraglino

Science, empire, and capitalism are all linked because it is basically impossible to fund science without some sort of capitalism,…

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It’s All Connected

Peyton McElroy

It seems to me that the crux of Harari’s argument is that all these things are connected because the people…

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The Circle Continues

Sorcha Brooks

Science, empire, and capitalism all worked together to promote each other in 18th and 19th Europe. Previously, Europe had no…

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This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land…

Emily OBrien 1 Comment

Harari claims that science, empire and capitalism are linked. He argues that capitalism has been vital for building both empires…

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A Capitalist Empire Fueled by Science

Maxwell Alvord

Maxwell Alvord September 23, 2018 With imperialism at the top of everyones mind it is not hard to find times…

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a drive for the new

Kathleen Warren

According to Harari, science and empire are linked in a circular cycle. Increases in science understanding lead to growth of…

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The Revolution is here–with some added baggage

Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

In Harari’s view, there is a strong link between science, empire and capitalism, which is bound in a sort of…

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The Sapien Power Struggle

Wyatt Ayers

It was quite simple for the early humans, if you were technologically more advanced than your enemies, you would do…

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Scientific and Political Links

Ryan Smart

Science, empire, and capitalism are linked through research, or “mutual reinforcement” (Harari, pg. 250).  As one of the three concepts…

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Science, Empire, and Capital is Everything

Will Werner

As the chapters carry on the author narrows in on how exactly science, empire, and capitalism are tied together.  A…

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Progression in Regression

Marika Feduschak

Harari notes that European conquest was different in that they “set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining…

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Progress and its connection to all parts of the empire

Cameron Durfee 1 Comment

Science, empire and Capitalism are all closely linked together because they all work together to progress and better the empire.…

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The Empire Strikes Back

Seamus Andersen

One of the most important parts to a successful empire is scientific advancement, and what better way to allow for…

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The Progress of Good and Bad

Kaylor Althoff

“The feedback loop between Science, Empire, and Capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years.” (pg.…

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The Cycle of Scientific Conquest

Patrick Phattharaampornchai

Before the scientific revolution much of knowledge that was not known was considered unimportant if it was not recorded in…

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Progress: Our Savior

Tyler Trudnowski

Science, empire and capitalism are linked according to Harari. The link between science, empire and capitalism has only recently happened…

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Hope in a Future

Heather Schaffnit 2 Comments

Science is not only a tool of knowledge, but one of significant political importance. Empires provided a perfect foundation for…

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Modern Science Shmodern Shmience

Erica Dobrowski

Throughout the reading Harari talks about how capitalism, empire and science are linked.  He asks “What potential did Europe develop…

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Next Celebrity Couple; Science and Politics?

Ayla Johnsen 1 Comment

Science is powerful and ever changing. It’s also funded by the government. Since the government controls science and the funding…

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Science, Capitalism and Empire…Oh My.

Connor Ludwig

Science, empire and capitalism are all linked in a number of ways. But the two biggest connections are growth and…

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The Journey 2 the Center of Progress

Jacob Lunsford 1 Comment

The link between science, empire, and capitalism is that they all benefit from one another. In the book, Harari notes…

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Cameron Graves 2 Comments

In Harari’s text Sapiens he outlines how without empire and the spread of capitalism, science, would have never flourished into what it…

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Progress, Politics, & Profit

Hali Kapperud 1 Comment

According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are linked because science and empires were motivated by the feeling that something…

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Love Me Some Capitalism

Madalyn Alderman

Let’s just get this out of the way… I love capitalism, and it works. I also love this country, and…

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The Three’s Company

Spencer Felice 1 Comment

Science Empire and Capitalism are all necessary for the development of society. Science gives us a better understanding on who…

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Follow The Money to Get The Honey

Steve Quinn

Harari posits that capitalism and the desire for wealth drives a lot of innovation, often because those innovations are made…

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Science and Warfare

Tim Brown 1 Comment

Science has played one of the most pivotal roles in any expansion in almost every empire that has ever existed.…

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Progress in Capitalism

Nicole Eifert

Science, capitalism, and empire are all linked by politics. If the majority of people think that something isn’t worth studying…

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Is Progress “progress”

Roman Oliman 1 Comment

According to Harari the enterprises of empire, science, and economy, are inherently linked and are what has allowed the rise…

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Knowledge is Power

Matt Muir 1 Comment

Early empires like the Romans, conquered lands not for knowledge or to study foreign lands, but to become more powerful…

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I missed Monday Night Football for this

Sam Barber 1 Comment

  Science, Empire, and Capitalism has been the quarter horses of the values of humanity. The men behind the more…

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Money will buy you knowledge

Audrey Scott

Harari states that there is quite a significant link between science, empire and capitalism, significant that the technology in science…

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At The Knee of Life’s Exponential Growth Curve

Nick Lemon 1 Comment

Much of the reason for the exponential growth we see in the 20th and 21st centuries is because, for much…

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Scientist lives matter

Alexia Gonzales

“The feedback loop between science, empire, and capital has arguably been history’s chief engine for the past 500 years” (p…

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The Three Counterparts to Guns, Germs, and Steel

Ellie Polk

Harari believes that, as with many other phenomena that have shaped our world, science, empire, and capitalism are linked in…

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The Power of The Empire

Mckinley Paine

Scientific discovery is a very interesting topic and Harari, talks about in great detail. It is and likely will always…

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Capitalism: A Brief History of Why I Have Credit Debt

Cassie Andrews

According to Harari, Europe was the first country to really open their eyes to the world around them and accept…

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controwledge

Ellis Knoll

According to Harari, science, empire and capitalism are linked through one common goal. This goal can change, whether it’s to…

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howd we get here

Ben Wallace

According to harari we are looking at the relationship between science, empire, and capitalism. He starts off by talking about…

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The Idea of Progress

John Stoppler

There is one idea that links science, empire, and capitalism together, and that idea is progress. Progress can be thought…

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Linked with everything eles

Alexis Thull

They are all linked because they are bias. All of them are in one way or another implicated by humans.…

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Progress for Humans: One Step Forward, One Step Backward, and One Step Sideways

David Todd 1 Comment

According to Harari science, empire and capitalism are all connected. Essentially, he says for one of those to be successful,…

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Science: A Great Weapon & A Fantastic Hope

September 23, 2018 Daniel Alexander

In Sapiens, Harari asserts that science, empire, and capitalism are inextricably linked to one another, each driving the other to…

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Science+Capitalism+Empire=A World Super Power

Bryce Whited

         According to Harari, Science, empire, and capitalism are linked together by progress. Progress pushed the Europeans…

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It’s All Sunny Days and Nuclear Sunsets

William Green 1 Comment

Harari makes a convincing argument that ties science, economy, and empire into tightly weaved web in which one does not…

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Curiosity Killed the Cat but Satisfaction Brought it Back

Diana Lester

Science, empire, and capitalism are connected. These three things are a circle. Empire wants to expand. In order to do…

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Human Nature: snacks equal progress

Anthony Johnson

Because of the agricultural revolution, the way humans organize themselves took an interesting twist. They still had hierarchies but now…

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System of Relapse

Rachel Bragg

According to Harari the organizations of empires as the standard for political rule fueled the exploration of science and the…

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Week 5 Blog Post

Bryce Dawkins 1 Comment

Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: Science as I have learned has been a huge driving force for our nation and for…

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