History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets

Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. They extra they produced fed the tiny minority of elites - kings, government officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers - who fill the history books. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

Y.N. Hariri, Sapiens (2011), 114


'kings, government officials, soldiers, priests' is how I got my degree.