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How War Shaped Our Destiny | Origins: The Journey of Humankind


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·Nov 11, 2024

[music playing] The roots of war lie buried deep in the human past. It has been a part of us since before recorded history. At the dawn of civilization, our ties to the land drove us to protect what was ours. We began to raise our children not as hunters and farmers but as soldiers. Fear drove us to fight to survive.

This primal fear fueled the engines of war; armies multiplied, and our empires grew fast. But war is not only fought with soldiers; it is fought with inventions: the spear, bow, iron, gunpowder, the bomb. War pushes the envelope of technology, granting us God-like powers. Tribal raids have given way to nuclear missiles, smart bombs, and cyber war. Our instruments of death have become so powerful they now threaten to erase humankind completely.

But is there more to war than meets the eye? Is it more than just a plague on humanity? War has transformed our culture and rewritten the map of the modern world. Technologies have revolutionized medicine, transportation, communication, changed how we live and how we think.

This is the story of how war makes us who we are, how it shapes not just our world but our destiny as a species. This is origins. [music playing]

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