Try this book as well: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, Guns, Germs, and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_...teel#Reception
Im 2/3rds of the way through- amazing book!