Guns, Germs & Steel
Guns, Germs & Steel
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- Mimio0
Read it. Diamond is mainly talking about a civilization's economics of survival, what it takes to expand, what a strategic resource actually is..etc etc. As far as South American gold goes, he talks about how certain technological advances allowed the Spanish and Portugeuse to overcome incredible odds in taking control over the Mayans(& their gold).