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Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Mankind?
- celticninja 1y agoI would suggest these 2 as a good place to start reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Ever... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Hu...
- sexyman48 1y agoSapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism. Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically about early man.
- celticninja 1y agoPlease add your suggestions
- sexyman48 1y agoI wish I could. I'm also rather curious how "cave men" lived.
- radonek 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and...