Beginning with early farming civilizations, societies started to connect into large networks of exchange. They shared both goods
and knowledge. This led to levels of shared learning never before seen in human history.What do these two sentences tell you about what the article is about
They tell you about farming and what early civilisations shared and learnt. They are saying that the civilisations learnt to share and this has never been seen in human history.
There are many ways in which repressive regimes interact with civil society, although one of the major ones is that they suppress people's opinions and voices.