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From Ancient Greece To Enlightenment Europe: How We Frame History Matters

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Structuring the past into distinct periods of knowledge helps us understand who we are, how we got here — and how we form the future.

Ralf Jacobs for Noema Magazine Credits Claire Isabel Webb directs the Berggruen Institute’s Future Humans program that investigates the histories and futures of life, mind and outer space. She is also an associate editor of Noema Magazine. Beginnings Six millennia ago in what is now Serbia, a woman was breaking down a deer that had been killed with a spear tipped with smelted copper. She did not think to herself: “Ah, how good it is to be alive now in the Copper Age, but the sharper knives they’ll have in the Bronze Age in the future would really help me saw through these ligaments.” In the la

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