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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesversion="1.0" encoding="Windows-1251"?> 105JaredDiamondGuns, Germs & Steel Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years . 1997 my own book scans preserved In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond argues that both geography and the environment played major roles in determining the shape of the modern world. This argument runs counter to the usual theories that cite biology as the crucial factor. Diamond claims that the cultures that were first able to domesticate plants and animals were then able to develop writing skills, as well as make advances in the creation of government, technology, weaponry, and immunity to disease PRIVATE Prologue: Yali's Question: The regionally differing courses of history 13 Ch. 1 Up to the Starting Line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? 35 Ch. 2 A Natural Experiment of History: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands 53 Ch. 3 Collision at Cajamarca: ...» |
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