HIST 2312 Lecture 3: Guns, Germs and Steel - Out of Eden Lecture Discussion

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Guns germs and steel - out of eden. Diamond s quest to answer yalis question of why some societies are advanced and some are not, led him to look at the time when there was not any inequality among the societies. After studying the historical records of 13000 years ago, diamond has proposed the answer by saying that the reason that some societies lagged behind and some moved forward lies in the geography of the places they lived. He argued that the inequality has nothing to do with the racial difference or ingenuity. Rather, it was more about the geographical advantages or disadvantages which one place offered to one society while became a challenge for another. According to him, the pre-agricultural and pro-domestication-of-animal lands were the ones where civilizations prospered and gave the humans the opportunity to be more productive in feeding themselves.

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