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Eurasian History: Black Death, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Kamboja-dvaravati Route, History of Eurasia, Great Plague of Marseille
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-27.
ISBN 9781157033929
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Black Death, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Kamboja-dvaravati Route, History of Eurasia, Great Plague of Marseille, Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind, Russian-georgian Wars. Excerpt: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005. Jared Diamond said an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13, 000 years. The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), these advantages were only created due to the influence of geography and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes. Diamond points out that nearly all of humanity's achievements (scientific, artistic, architectural, political, etc.) have occurred on the Eurasian continent. The peoples of other continents (Sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans) have been largely conquered, displaced and in some extreme cases referring to Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=106086
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