Guns, Germs and Steel
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What’s it about?
Why did Europeans conquer the world? Jared Diamond reveals how geography, not racial superiority, gave some societies guns, germs, and steel—and why luck shaped human history.
You’ll learn
- Geography, not race, explains global inequality
- Agriculture arose where plants and animals were domesticable
- Eurasia's east-west axis accelerated innovation
- Deadly germs from animals decimated native populations