Diseases of Eurasian origin were the primary cause of the post-Columbian Americas’ depopulation of its earliest human inhabitants, according to Jared Diamond’s analysis in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel (GGS). This fact runs contrary to ahistorical narratives of “genocide” pushed by neo-Marxist historians such as Howard Zinn.
GGS’ thesis synthesizes how geographical and environmental forces shape human history; broadly explaining how such forces drove Eurasian civilizations to largely supplant those in Africa, Australia, the Americas, and other regions.
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