Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. (1997)
‘Eurasian dominance can be explained by its technology and its diseases, which came from its long-settled societies. Eurasia was settled earlier due to its early and widespread adoption of food production which arose because of its domesticable plants and animals, its accessibility and scale and its East-West orientation.’ My notes on the book.