Quotes by Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and geno — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly ass — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tolerate the transfer o — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies