Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

from Read Between The Lines · host Jared Diamond

Have you ever wondered why history unfolded so differently across the continents? Journey back 13,000 years to discover how the luck of having the right crops and animals gave some civilizations the ultimate tools of conquest: guns, germs, and steel.

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