Did we humans fall into a trap 12,000 years ago from which we could never escape?

Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Pillars of Civilization tells how Homo sapiens transformed from nomads to settlers and began to work more and more, yet without securing a better life. Learn how wheat became the ruler of the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; how war, famine, disease, and inequality became part of the human condition; and why we might be solely to blame for all of this.

Sounds somewhat unpleasant? Not with the multitude of entertaining characters who continue the narrative started in the first volume. Yuval, Zoe, Professor Saraswati, Cindy and Bill, Officer Lopez, and Dr. Fantasy travel the lengths and breadths of human history, this time to discover how the Agricultural Revolution forever changed society. The cunning Mephistopheles shows them how to trap people with plants, King Hammurabi creates laws, and Confucius explains what a harmonious society is. 

Guest-starring Thomas Jefferson, Scarlett O'Hara, Margaret Thatcher, and John Lennon. The origins of modern agriculture are presented in the form of an Elizabethan tragedy, the fate of domesticated plants and animals through the columns of the Daily Entrepreneur, and the history of inequality becomes the investigation of a superhero detective story.