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Phase 5 · Jul 2026
Phase 5: Agriculture & Cities
Chain Reaction of Energy Surplus
Core Question
Why did agriculture trigger civilization?
/// Reading List
Against the Grain (James C. Scott)
The Dawn of Everything (Graeber & Wengrow)
/// Interactive Works 2
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Interactive Experience Agricultural Origins
Survival tradeoffs, grain politics, escape routes, social form explorer — four modules revealing whether agriculture was progress or trap
Canvas 2D Data Visualization
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Interactive Experience City Emergence
Agglomeration engine, bronze age network, collapse lab, city DNA — four modules on why cities make us smarter yet more fragile
Canvas 2D Network Graph