Why Geography Shaped Every Civilization You Know: Lessons from Jared Diamond’s Germs, Guns, and Steel
Your history textbook lied by omission. Geography, not genetics, determined which societies conquered others in a chain reaction starting 13,000 years ago. Why did Europeans show up in the Americas with guns, germs, and steel instead of the other way around? That single question drives one of the most important books ever written about human … Read more