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1. Guns, germs and steel by jared diamond

the different environments and geographic locations where people have lived and how this has
affected their advancement of technology.

some countries developed more rapidly than others and were able to expand and conquer much of
the world because of geographic luck.

main conclusion was that societies developed differently on different continents because of
differences in continental environments, not in human biology.

Means by which farm-based societies conquered populations and maintained dominance though
sometimes being vastly outnumbered, so that imperialism was enabled by guns, germs, and steel.

When cultural or genetic differences have favoured Eurasians (for example, written language or the
development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages
occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating
commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genes.

2. Collapse by jared diamond

collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity,
over a considerable area, for an extended time.”
five factors that contribute to collapse: climate change, hostile neighbours, collapse of essential
trading partners, environmental problems, and the society's response to the foregoing four
factors.

military or economic factors also play a role, as seen in the collapse of the soviet union, and the
siege of carthage.

humanity collectively faces, on a much larger scale, many of the same issues, with possibly
catastrophic near-future consequences to many of the world's populations.