World Geography
Cultural Development
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Why is World History Like an Onion? This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? ... The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible. (Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel, p. 9)
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