When the author, Jared Diamond, wrote his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, he described latitude as a “major determinant of climate, growing conditions, and ease of spread of food production.”, which is true because the higher the latitude the easier it is to grow food. The author helps the reader comprehend this when he writes, “The main such spreads of food production were Southwest Asia to Europe, Egypt and North Africa, Ethiopia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley; from the Sahel and West Africa…
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