Axes Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

Eurasia’s main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia’s east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.

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East

Jared Diamond

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.

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Jared Diamond

Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa’s long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.

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Axes

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