Building Pyramids: The Stories That Hold Societies Together
Notes and reflections on Yuval Noah Harari’s course lecture, “Building Pyramids.” The explanations below summarize the arguments presented in the lecture. Building Pyramids: The Stories That Hold Societies Together The agricultural revolution did more than increase the amount of food humans could produce. It made possible a new kind of society. Foragers had usually lived in small bands, sometimes connected to larger tribes. Farmers increasingly lived in villages and towns containing hundreds or thousands of people....