- july 3
- by jared diamond
- it’s(largely) the geography that decides the success of nations
- food production and domesticates, visible and invisible selection by human, anti-social animals, fertile crescent, the axis
- germs, the population and density, interspecies transmission
- tech, writing and gun powder, societal readiness
- government, scale, force
- new guinea and australia aboriginal, china, austronesian, across the atlantic, bantu in africa, japan(jomon, yayoi)