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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
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Indeed, the difficulty of forming autonomous states on an ethnic basis, against the gravitational pull of cultural or economic attraction (as well as disparities of military force), has been so great that empire (where different ethnic communities fall under a common ruler) has been the default mode of political organization throughout most of hist
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