Abid Uzair

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Geographical conditions predetermined that Africa, Australia and the Americas would be colonized by Europeans. It had nothing to do with DNA, character or intelligence. To put it simply but accurately, it was all due to the shape and location of the different continents.
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Okay this could be partly true but one theory to explain it all - the geographical conditions being the determining factor behind colonization and technological innovation - is rather too simplistic. Perhaps, I need to take a deeper look at Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and then counter-narratives provided in other texts such as "Why Nations Fall" by D. Acemoğlu and J. A. Robinson
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