How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Role of Warfare in Human History
In the book, we begin by asking how some of these basic human freedoms that once seem to have been taken for granted, became eroded and came lost. We find groups that raid take in slaves, but then effectively put them to work looking after their own. So one of the things that we discovered is that forms of inequality become much more magnified when they involve this kind of synthesis between systems of violence and es of care.
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