Guns, Germs, and Steel

I just finished "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. This book is fabulous!! Everyone should read it. It has really ignited new interests in me about the world and how things now are so entwined in seemingly mundane factors from history. I have begun to learn why certain people are dominant today: especially people who originated from the Eurasian continent. Some of the factors that gave Eurasian people according to Diamond are domestication of certain plants and animals, technology and the diffusion of it, and the axis of the geographical area (ex: Africa and the Americas have a North-South axis and Eurasia has a East-West axis.) Anyhow, this book is illuminated and a great read. I highly recommend it for anyone!