The world history you must know

Smoke and starlight once stitched the first human communities into a world they could share. On a wind-swept shore, some twelve thousand years ago, a small band gathers in a coastal cave. Fish scales glint beside embers. A child taps ochre on stone. Elders trade names for stars. With fire and language, they shared skills across grass and ice, long before shaping them in clay. But then, seeds ch...