Jared Diamond

I wasn't sure if any of you were interested in the topics we were speaking about in class today as far as disease and how it impacts a civilization, but an author that I personally love writes about how geographical location is crucial to the rise and fall of an empire. Jared Diamond's book titled, Guns, Germs and Steel, analyzes how Europe was able to conquer so many different regions from the geographic advantages. He even discussed Cortez and his success as well as the fall of the Inca empire, which was pretty significant. Soooo if anyone was interested I recommend that book greatly. He also wrote Collapse, which you can guess what it is about by the title of the book.