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