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#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Geography of Western Dominance

Geography drives history, and the agricultural revolution happened first in the west because that was where the wild precursors of we and barley and cattle and sheep and goats were found./nChinese, Mexicans, and Europeans all had their agricultural revolutions later on, but having had that agricultural revolution, what that then does is change the direction that history is heading and the way societies are developing.

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