After Reading “Sapiens A brief history of humankind" Part 1 Yesterday I finished reading the book “Sapiens A brief history of humankind” by Israel writer Yuval Harari. The book is my first finished book in 2018. I love it. It is a special kind of History book from the perspective of my reading experience. As a Chinese, we value history so much, mostly because there is a lot of history books written by ancient people in the language Chinese still exist and are familiar with modern people. For example “Zuo Zhuan”( Commentary of Zuo ) published by the 4th century BC & “ShiJi” (Records of the Grand Historian) by 1st century BC. These book with all of their follow-ups have given me a basic knowledge about History and the concept: histories are these stories about ancient people or organization which we called state, nation, party, society created by ancient or pre-modern people. We knew there is western history beginning with ancient Greece and Roma. There are Japanese history, British history, American history ...... And there are died history of Inca and Maya. All of these mentioned history beginning with a legend or fact-based story that people recorded and told to their next generation. In my previous opinion when there was no story, there was no history. These descriptions of longly long years before any human recorded and told story just could be called knowledge that composed by archeology, geography, and zoology. But Yuval Harari in this book gave me a total extension of what is history in his view. Let me quote his words at first: “The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behavior patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures.’ Once cultures appeared, they never ceased to change and develop, and these unstoppable alterations are what we call ‘history.’ ” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remaining material will be in my next italki Note.