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posted by [personal profile] boundbooks at 09:55pm on 09/04/2010
The premise alone sounds like something worth chasing down. Have you read Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel by any chance?

It's about the impact of geography on why some civilizations rose and conquered and why some got left behind. There's an early thought-provoking question where Diamond asks why didn't the Aztecs cross the ocean and invade Europe, instead of the other way around? Diamond lays out a geography-centric argument, which leaves room for the idea that perhaps in another location/geographic formation, Aztec civilization might be a major political player.
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posted by [personal profile] holyschist at 02:18am on 10/04/2010
I have, and it's a really interesting book, although I think it still has some flaws.
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