Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Context with Brad Harris
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The Importance of Environmental Differences
Environmental differences between the continents gave rasians a massive head start over everyone else in the race toward global domination, says diamond. Inkin civ lisation and nearly all other native societies around the world were at such a disadvantage when they collided with urasian civilization. For diamond, the answer is entirely environmental, and can be traced back to the emergence of settled agriculture 13 thousand years ago.
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