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

Jared Diamond · 1997

Index

  • Prologue: Yali's Question
  • Part One: From Eden to Cajamarca
  • 1. Up to the Starting Line
  • 2. A Natural Experiment of History
  • 3. Collision at Cajamarca
  • Part Two: The Rise and Spread of Food Production
  • 4. Farmer Power
  • 5. History's Haves and Have-Nots
  • 6. To Farm or Not to Farm
  • 7. How to Make an Almond
  • 8. Apples or Indians
  • 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
  • 10. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
  • Part Three: From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock
  • 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
  • 13. Necessity's Mother
  • 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
  • Part Four: Around the World in Five Chapters
  • Epilogue

Quote

"History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments."
"Geography is destiny."

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