Guns, Germs, and Steel (Q279022)

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1997 book by Jared Diamond
  • Guns Germs and Steel
  • Guns Germs Steel
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
1997 book by Jared Diamond
  • Guns Germs and Steel
  • Guns Germs Steel
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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Guns, Germs, and Steel (English)
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The Fates of Human Societies (English)
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A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (English)
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A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C. (English)
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14 / The Dark Matter of History / Guns, Germs, and Other Factors / Diamond’s argument explains much of the global-level inequality that we observe in the world of 1000 CE. (English)
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9 Hiding in Plain Sight / ON THE CASE OF TLAXCALA, AN INDIGENOUS REPUBLIC THAT RESISTED THE AZTEC EMPIRE THEN CAME TO JOIN FORCES WITH SPANISH INVADERS, AND HOW ITS FATEFUL DECISION EMERGED FROM DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATIONS IN AN URBAN PARLIAMENT (AS OPPOSED TO THE DAZZLING EFFECTS OF EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY ON ‘INDIAN MINDS’) / It is [...] We assume that nobody – even the most ardent believer in the forces of technological progress, or ‘guns, germs, and steel’ – would go so far as to claim that fewer than 1,000 Spaniards could ever have conquered Tenochtitlan (a highly organized city, covering over five square miles, containing roughly a quarter of a million people) without the help of these indigenous allies, who included some 20,000 warriors from Tlaxcala. (English)

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