Guns, Germs, and Steel (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Jared Diamond
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 13,000 to the 1990’s
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Farms, farmers, or farming, Hunting or hunters, Ecology, Diseases, Animals, Food supply, Biology or biologists, Geography
Why did Christopher Columbus “discover” America rather than a Native American discovering Europe? In sixteenth century sub-Sahara Africa or nineteenth century Australia, why did the native peoples lack the technology that was commonplace in contemporary Europe? Why did the peoples of Europe and Asia farm, herd animals, and build cities earlier or on a grander scale than the inhabitants of the other continents? For many centuries, the answers to these questions were usually cast in racial terms. Whether the cause was a purposeful Almighty or Darwinian evolution, Europeans were...
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