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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond, in The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
In any event, even if decentralization and private individual merchants were an issue, it seems unlikely that they caused the collapse of the Late Bronze Age, at least on their own. Instead of accepting the idea that private merchants and their enterprises undermined the Bronze Age economy, perhaps we should consider the alternative suggestion that
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