The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Jared Diamond
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If you take a look at the history of human interactions and how they played out around the world, you will realize how these interactions shaped the modern world. If we can learn from those interactions and see what worked and what did not, we can keep those interactions from happening again.

Source: Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies

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