Maybe 12,000 years ago, we humans fell into a trap from which we could never escape;

Sapiens: An Illustrated History - The Foundations of Civilization tells the story of how Homo sapiens transformed from nomads to settlers and began to work more and more, without securing a better life. Learn how wheat became the ruler of the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; how war, famine, disease, and inequality became part of the human condition; and why we may be solely responsible for all of this.

Does it sound somewhat unpleasant? Not with the multitude of entertaining characters who continue the narrative that began in the first volume. Yuval, Zoe, Professor Saravati, Cindy and Bill, Officer Lopez, and Dr. Fantasy travel through the lengths and breadths of human history, this time to discover how the Agricultural Revolution forever changed society. The cunning Mephistopheles shows them how to trap people with plants, King Hammurabi creates laws, and Confucius explains what a harmonious society is.

As guest stars, we have appearances by Thomas Jefferson, Scarlett O'Hara, Margaret Thatcher, and John Lennon. The beginnings of modern agriculture are presented in the form of Elizabethan tragedy, the fate of domesticated plants and animals through the columns of the Daily Entrepreneur, and the history of inequality becomes the investigation of a detective story with superheroes.