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1: Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel Is an anthropological history rooted in oral traditions Is a cultural history rooted in comparative literature Is an economic history rooted in geography Is an biographical history rooted in politics2: The heart of Diamond's insight is Noticing that human nature is shaped by history . Finding that the superiority that Europeans had in both technology and weaponry reflected the intellectual superiority of people who evolved under the pressures of agriculture Noticing that oceanic currents warmed Northern Europe permitting agriculture where in similar latitudes in North America there could only be hunting and gathering Noticing that the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere run on two different axes3: Diamond argues that a The larger size of the Pacific Ocean relative to the Atlantic deterred the spread of plagues between Adia and the New World I Smallpox which was endemic to the Western Hemisphere was a key element in the Columbian Exchange The shape otthe Americas promoted the spread of plagues The shape of Eurasia promoted the spread of plagues