Yuval Noah Harari

War spreads ideas, technologies and people far more quickly than commerce.

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents.

witnessed the invention

tracking a herd of bison

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven

He was fully liable,

subconsciously still inhabit

Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order. This involves two distinct criteria

. Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a reflection of the relationship between gods and humans.

The fundamental insight of polytheism, which distinguishes it from monotheism, is that the supreme power governing the world is devoid of interests and biases, and therefore it is unconcerned with the mundane desires, cares and worries of humans