A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …
Suddenly, a few of the more powerful European kingdoms found themselves in control of vast stretches of the globe, and European intellectuals found themselves exposed, not only to the civilizations of China and India but to a whole plethora of previously unimagined social, scientific and political ideas. The ultimate result of this flood of new ideas came to be known as the ‘Enlightenment’.
— The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow, David Graeber, and 1 other (Page 29 - 692)