Why did white men conquer the world? | Elephants in Rooms - Ken LaCorte | History Teacher Reacts

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In this video, Ken LaCorte ‪@ElephantsInRooms‬ summarizes the core arguments of Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel, positing that European global dominance was the result of a "geographic lottery" rather than biological or intellectual superiority. This advantage began with the availability of a wide array of easily domesticable plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, which allowed Eurasian societies to transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to settled agriculture thousands of years before other regions. These food surpluses fostered specialized labor, leading to the development of steel, guns, and centralized governments. Additionally, the east-west orientation of the Eurasian continent allowed crops and innovations to spread rapidly across similar climates, while the north-south axes of Africa and the Americas created significant geographic barriers to such progress. Ultimately, centuries of living in close proximity to livestock gave Eurasians a unique resistance to "crowd diseases" like smallpox, which unintentionally acted as a devastating biological weapon that wiped out the vast majority of indigenous populations upon contact. Mr. Terry has plenty to add.

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