Episode Three : Into the Tropics (Part 3 of 6) So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people — Europeans — endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel allowed Europeans to colonize vast tracts of the globe — but what happened when this all-conquering package arrived in Africa, the birthplace of humanity? Can Jared Diamond’s theories explain how a continent so rich in natural resources, could have ended up the poorest continent on earth?
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