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Old 11-01-07, 07:34 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3
...maybe thats why africa is so undeveloped.. they are stuck 1000 years behind the rest of the world...
The book, Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond speaks over that matter quite well, excluding the slave trade, enviromental factors such as lack of certain trees,climiate, even horses which are taken for granted now a days and general beasts of burden can affect the development of whole regions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
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