Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond | Book Club

Book was suggested by: Tam R H

Pages to read: 432
ISBN: 9780393317558 (Originally listed edition, and Edition I am using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•How to use historical explanations?
•How does the environment and ecosystem impact the development of peoples?
•How did food production influence development of complex societies?
•Why did some societies choose to farm, others did not?
•What is the use of animals?
•How did germs influence development of nations?
•Why are some plans and animals domesticated while others are not?
•How are disparities between nations created?
•How did the shape of the continents shape societies?
•What happened between the Moriori and the Maori?
•Why was it that the Spanish conquered the Inca, rather than reverse?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My Review of the Book:
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Summary from Goodreads:
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.