A New book that I recommend

 I have now read the book “Peak Human” ISBN 9781805 463 870 (Pocket). 

 The book “Peak Human” is written by a Swede – Johan Nordberg. In an interview he was asked: Why as a Swede he did not write the book in Swedish, he replied: When I write in English I need to think more about what I am writing. And I needed that when I wrote the book.

 Now that I have read “Peak Human” I feel I need to recommend this book. Its secondary title is: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of the Golden Ages.

For me, the book meant that I gained new insights about:

Chapter 1) I was forced to acknowledge that the Athenian state was the one who took the most responsibility, when ancient Greece defeated the Persian Empire. I have previously tended to overemphasize the importance of Sparta’s efforts, even though I was well aware that it was primarily the Athenians who ensured that the Persians were defeated at Marathon.

Chapter 2) The book makes no mention of the city of Rome possibly being founded by the Spartans (which I think I remember it did). Didn’t learn much more about the Roman Republic.

Chapter 3) Learned a lot more about the Abbasid Caliphate.

Chapter 4) I knew almost nothing about the Song Dynasty in China before I read this chapter in the book. What I learned me was very interesting. I had no idea that the Song Dynasty had been so successful.

Chapter 5) About Renaissance Italy Did not provide any new groundbreaking insights for me.

Chapter 6) gave me new realities about how much the Netherlands meant to the founding of modern Western civilization.

Chapter 7) About the Anglosphere was rewarding reading. Got a lot of new realizations on the influences of the English speaking world on our modern western civilisation..

PS. I have previously recommended reading the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari. It is the world's most read history book (sold over 30 million copies). And my advice was appreciated. So if you have no yet read it I do recommend you to do so a.s.a.p.

Ref: 

https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2015/09/sapiens-brief-history-of-humanity.html