![]() Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed examines, among others, the disappeared cultures of Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Mayans and the Greenland Vikings. This year, Diamond published a book that looks at the demise of civilizations. Diamond argues this is how Eurasians came to dominate the world. Germs also played a role in history, decimating some populations with diseases to which others were immune. Some civilizations grew in locations favorable to agriculture, allowing them to develop technologies and social institutions to overtake others. The presentation begins in Papua New Guinea, and then follows Diamond, who is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, as he travels to the Fertile Crescent and across the globe in search of the root cause of economic and political inequality. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jared Diamond, the presentation looks at why some civilizations have risen faster than others. ![]() ![]() How Different Nations Maintain Wealth and Power While Others Don'tĪ new, three-part National Geographic series called Guns, Germs and Steel debuts Monday night on PBS. ![]()
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