Guns, Germs, and Steel: Quotes
The Fates of Human Societies
Book by Jared Diamond
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In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that the fates of human societies across history have been shaped not by innate differences between peoples, but by environmental differences in the wild plant and animal species available for domestication on each continent.
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Food Production As The Ultimate Driving Force
"History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves... This book will provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't."
Section: 2, Chapter: 4
The Broad Pattern Of Human History
"The continents with a long east-west axis (Eurasia) proved more favorable for the rise of agriculture, complex technology, and empires than did the continents with a long north-south axis (the Americas, Africa, Australia). Not that that orientation was the sole determinant of historical development; otherwise, the wheel would never have reached Mexico from Ecuador, and North Africa would have been a dynamo of innovation."
Section: 2, Chapter: 10
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