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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations

Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations

Update: 2025-10-20
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Sphere is excited to engage our educator community in discussion about the factors that contributed to the rise and fall of some of humanity’s greatest civilizations. Through a moderated discussion with author Johan Norberg, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, we will explore seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations—ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere—featured in his new book, Peak Human. We will examine their contributions to societal progress during each of their golden ages and unpack valuable lessons we can learn from them.  


Following moderated discussion, we will walk through how to support student exploration of these topics with Sphere content author and alumnus Sean Kinnard.


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Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations

Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations