About 8,000 BC, in Mesopotamia, human beings begin to experience a new way of appropriating the energy they need to live. The first farmers grow barley and wheat, sowing the first seeds of civilisation.
Around 200 million years ago, under the effect of plate tectonics, Europe gradually moved away from North Africa.
Linking prehistoric forests to the Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern warfare.
Jonathan Markley
Host
