In this strange video history, we look at the 100 most influential historical objects in human history. Each episode will look at five objects from the Neil MacGregor book A History of the World in 100 Objects.

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How to Make a Human?

The first 5 historical objects from the book A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. Part 1: Making us Human. From 2,000,000 – 9000 BCE. (view more)

How Food Changed Our Sex Lives?

The development of farming occurred independently in at least 7 different parts of the world at the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago. This slow revolution took many centuries and had profound implications. Tending crops and domesticating animals meant that humans had for the first time to settle in one place. Farming created a food surplus that allowed larger groups of people to live together and changed not just how they lived but how they thought. New gods were developed to explain animal behavior and the seasonal cycle of crops. (view more)

Citations:

Macgregor, Neil. A History of the World in 100 Objects. Viking, 2011. Buy here!

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