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Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019.

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   Our readingWriting both created private property rights and made large authoritarian kingdoms and empires possible

   Their wordsthe invention of the written document, it on the one hand empowers the individual and creates the basis for private property rights and creates the basis for large scale authoritarian systems of kingdoms and empires.

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