Episode #136- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part I)
Our Fake History
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The Shape of the Urasian Continent
The urasian continent was home to most of the world's domesticable animal species. This relationship with domesticated animals allowed societies in eurasia to build and farm more easily. Living alongside these animals gave asian and european people exposure to a number of zoonautic diseases, that is, diseases that come from other animal species. Millennia of exposure to these diseases meant that urasian people developed important immunities to things like smallpox. Then finally, jered diamond argues that the shape of the eurasian continent itself made trade, the exchange of ideas and empire building a little bit easier than on other continents. According to diamond, this is because the ur
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