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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Study Guide

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by Jared Diamond
About 53 pages (15,884 words)
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History is very different for groups and societies in different parts of the world. Societies developed agriculture and metal tools at different times. As a result, wealth and power were distributed unevenly across the globe. Diamond seeks to explain why there were different rates of human development on different continents. (read more)
      Prologue
      Chapter 1 "Up to the Starting Line"
      Chapter 2 "A Natural Experiment of History"
      Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca"
      Chapter 4 "Farmer Power"
      Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots"
      Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm"
      Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond"
      Chapter 8 "Apples or Indians"
      Chapter 9 "Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and Anna Karenina"
      Chapter 10 "Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes"
      Chapter 11 "Lethal Gift of Livestock"
      Chapter 12 "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters"
      Chapter 13 "Necessity's Mother"
      Chapter 14 "From Egalitarian to Kleptocracy"
      Chapter 15 "Yali's People"
      Chapter 16 "How China Became Chinese"
      Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia"
      Chapter 18 "Hemispheres Colliding"
      Chapter 19 "How Africa Became Black"
      Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science"
      2003 Afterward "Guns, Germs and Steel Today"

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