Our Fake History Episode #136- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part I)
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Jun 30, 2021 AI Snips
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Initial reactions to the book
- Sebastian Major first read Guns, Germs, and Steel in university and was impressed.
- However, a respected professor dismissed it as barely better than The Da Vinci Code.
A new perspective on history
- Jared Diamond's work offered a non-racist explanation for European dominance.
- Before, such questions were often ignored or answered with racist theories like social Darwinism.
Polynesian history as a test case
- Diamond uses Polynesian history as a test case.
- It shows how diverse environments, settled by a common ancestor, led to different cultural developments.