Episode #137- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The Ultimate History of India, Guns, Germs and Steel
The ultimate history of latin america, as compared to the united states, is in no way accounted for by jered diamond's elaborate theory. And if i can build off that, i kept on thinking about the sub continent of india, and how diamond's theory in no way accounts for that country's history. To understand the colonial project in india, guns germs and steel offers no satisfying explanations. It was hardly inevitable that by the mid nineteenth century, the british would control the whole sub continent. N fact, at the time that pizarro conquered peru, the thought of an english india was laughable.
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