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Shared Stories Turned an Ordinary Ape Into the Planet's Ruler

Shared Fictions Let Strangers Cooperate by the Thousand

Gods, Nations, and Companies Exist Because Everyone Believes in Them

Sort What Exists in Nature From What Exists in Story

Farming Fed More People and Often Made Life Harder

Wheat Domesticated Humans as Much as Humans Domesticated Wheat

Stored Surplus Fed Rulers and Locked Peasants Into Hierarchy

Predict How Each Change Moved Daily Life on the Farm

Money, Empires, and Faiths Stitched Strangers Into One Network

Imagined Orders Feel Natural Because They Are Taught as Nature

Money Works Because Strangers Trust the Same Promise

Empires and Universal Religions Pulled Separate Worlds Into One

Spot the Rule That Exists Only by Agreement

Admitting Ignorance Started the Engine of Modern Power

A Blank Space on the Map Became an Invitation

Science, Empire, and Credit Fed Each Other

Decide Which Voyages Deserve Funding

Progress Has Costs the Headline Numbers Leave Out

Rising Comfort Does Not Reliably Raise Contentment

Human Expansion Left a Trail of Vanished Species and Confined Animals

Weigh the Hidden Cost of Each Advance

Three Habits for Judging Any Big Story

Three Questions Separate Real Facts From Useful Fictions

Biology, Machines, and Minds Are Becoming Things We Choose

Use the Three Questions on Everyday Situations

Check Your Understanding

What Lets Strangers Cooperate in Large Numbers

Why Farming Was Not a Simple Improvement

The Question to Ask of Any Gain

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Humans are not the strongest, fastest or most numerous animal, yet they run the planet. This course explains why: our species can cooperate in huge numbers because we believe the same stories about gods, nations, money and rights.

Sapiens — How Shared Stories Built the Human World

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