A review by riorda15
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

4.0

I loved the scope of this book. Diamond takes a highly academic subject and makes it accessible to the average person in this book. I only wish he would have carried his analysis through the rise of Europe. The epilogue attempts to full in the gaps but I thought he could have been well served but spending less time on the Austronesian's and covered from the decline of Mesopotamia to the rise of colonialism. In the beginning he promised to explain why Pizzaro's voyage was so much more advanced than Atahualpa's kingdom.