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u/foreverthinking · 4 pointsr/TheRedPill

Europeans were able to conquer so much of the world due to agriculture (which drives the economy, which in turn leads to a drive in culture).

You should read this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420227829&sr=8-1&keywords=jared+diamond

u/Awesomefusion · 4 pointsr/ukpolitics

If you studied history you would know white countries were the most technologically advanced and were the greater military power, this is an objective historical fact.

I never said it was that way because they are white, It's largely down to geography, I subscribe to the Jared Diamond view of Guns, Germs and Steel. Perhaps you should read it and educate yourself.

My mother is half Arab and is darker skinned, my father is not. Yes I identify as white does that make me a white nationalist now?

Do you know what white nationalism is? It means you want a nation full of white people and to kick all the other races out, never advocated anything like that for one second.

Try again bud.

u/MrJMaxted0291 · 2 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

You're perfectly welcome. If you're interested in learning more about the geographical influence on the formation of human societies I'd highly recommend reading Guns, Germs and Steel, which discusses the subject in depth.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/videos

You might want to give this a read.

u/denjin · 2 pointsr/CrusaderKings

Collision at Cajamarca from Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel. Contains a contemporary account of the decisive battle between Francisco Pizarro's band of conquistidores and Atahualpa and the entire Incan empire.

Fascinating read.

u/rastolo · 1 pointr/askscience

Read this, it's a great book. Farming appeared gradually (and somewhat serendipitously); since we're pretty smart, we soon realised the advantages and it spread and advanced and evolved technologically

u/lumoruk · 1 pointr/todayilearned

I haven't gotten around to reading it yet... But apparently explains a lot.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780

u/Vanayzan · 1 pointr/unpopularopinion

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Africa-historically-never-been-technologically-and-militarily-as-developed-as-the-rest-of-the-world

I've seen you attacking people for "being unwilling to change their stance" a lot but, maybe give this a read. Or if you're actually the "facts don't care about your feelings" guy and are so self assured in your "solid" opinion, maybe give this a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780

Here's a short summary since I have a feeling you won't be that interested, and it is VERY short summary.

"To summarise some of the main reasons, 1 geography: in places like Europe the geography of the land contributed 2 main things to societal development, the first being agricultural access(or how easy it is to farm excess) and also the opportunity of trade mostly through water routes. The ability to easily farm lead to specialisations in societies, or people who specialised in specific tasks, enabling that civilisations to further progress. The ease of trade allowed ideas and technology to spread and take root in farther lands than the origin (the Mediterranean). Another big factoring this varied development of societies is domestic animals. While Europe had the cow, pig, horses, chicken, etc. places like Africa had almost no domesticated animals to help mainly agriculture and transport of goods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel This wikipedia article also breaks many of the key points down into smaller chunks to read over.

u/billynomates1 · 1 pointr/DebateFascism

Everyone should read this book. It explains how the differences between cultures came to be. It's really fascinating.