I thought "This sounds like Guns, Germs and Steel" before I even read the description. FWIW, historians generally hate that book and its world view probably shouldn't be presented as fact.
Funny that the book was guessed even before opening the post 🙂
Yeah, I’ve read that Guns, Germs, and Steel gets a lot of criticism, especially for its idea of geographic determinism. In the game, I try to present it as just one perspective, obviously there are others.
But overall, it’s still an important work, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for a reason.