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Chapter List (21) Free
- 1: Foreword Yali's Question
- 2: Chapter 1 on the starting line
- 3: CHAPTER 2 A NATURAL EXPERIMENT OF HISTORY
- 4: Chapter 3 The Conflict in Cajamarca
- 5: Chapter 4 The Power of Peasants
- 6: Chapter 5 The Poor and the Rich in History
- 7: Chapter 6 To Farm or Not to Farm
- 8: Chapter 7 How to Identify Almonds
- 9: Chapter 8: Apples or Indians?
- 10: Chapter 9 Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
- 11: Chapter 10: The Wide Sky and Skewed Axis
- 12: Chapter 11 The Deadly Gift of Livestock
- 13: Chapter 12 Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
- 14: Chapter Thirteen The Mother of Needs
- 15: Chapter Fourteen From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
- 16: Chapter 15 Yeli's Clan
- 17: Chapter 16 How China Became the China of the Chinese
- 18: Chapter 17 The Yacht to Polynesia
- 19: Chapter 18 Collision of Two Hemispheres
- 20: Chapter 19 How Africa Became Black Africa
- 21: Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
