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How much does geography determine economic development?
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Raised by Dr. Femi Akintola21 Apr 20264 sources
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 1997 · W. W. Norton
A geographic account of why some societies industrialised earlier, centred on crops, domesticable animals and continental axes.
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“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.”
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