Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
This exhaustive collection of information describes the rise and fall of civilizations from around 200,000 years ago to the present. The book attempts to answer questions like Why didn't the Chinese discover America instead of the Europeans? With at least a 10,000 year head start, why didn't Africa become the dominant culture of the world? Was climate change or hunting the cause of the extinction of the wooly mammoth? An excellent background for a multifactoral analysis of world history.
Guns Germs and Steel Part - 1
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