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Title: Interesting read!
Review: This book is an easy read. The most interesting thing for me is that it contains a great summary of the human world to the 1500's. If you want to know about anything from the development of metallurgy, to language, to domestication of plants and animals, this book talks about it.One con of this book is that it sometimes can feel repetitive. There were many times that I thought "Oh, great, thanks for telling me again that 'guns, germs, and steel' are the end results of such and such." I would have much preferred that the title be something like "The Fates of Human Societies" and slowly work up to "Germs" in the first third, then "Steel" in the 2nd third, then "Guns" in the 3rd third.
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