1. Book Review - Guns, Germs, and Steel
... to develop. Dr. Jared Diamond discovered that the topography of the Eurasian continent is wider, the width of Eurasia from east to west is around 8,000 miles. Meanwhile the America continent is longer, the length of America continent from north to south is around 8,000 miles. Since the Fertile Crescent is in the middle of the Eurasian continent, and because the west ... the Eurasian continent share the same latitude, the same day length, the same climate zone and the same vegetation as the Fertile Crescent, the civilization easily spread horizontally west and east in Eurasia. The spread...
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