Discipline
Geography
Lessons across the journey that lean on geography, in the order they appear in the story.
- 4.4 Plate tectonics and the HimalayaDraft
The engine of a living planet, told through the Indian plate and the rise of the Himalaya.
- 6.6 Out of Africa, into IndiaDraft
How our species spread across the world, and what the genetics of the subcontinent actually show.
- 7.1 Why farm?Draft
The worst decision anyone ever made, taken independently at least eleven times.
- 7.2 DomesticationDraft
What we did to plants and animals, and what they did to us.
- 7.3 Villages to citiesDraft
How a pile of grain becomes a temple, a scribe, a tax and a king.
- 7.4 The Indus Valley civilisationDraft
The largest of the ancient civilisations by area, with no palaces, no royal tombs, and a script nobody can read.
- 7.5 The price of farmingDraft
The bill for cities: disease, inequality, patriarchy, slavery and soil.
- 7.6 Empires and exchangeDraft
Why agrarian states kept growing, kept collapsing, and kept connecting.
- 8.1 The Columbian ExchangeDraft
Two worlds meet, and the deadliest thing that crosses is invisible.