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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Basically explains why some societies excelled and developed technology, while some stayed in a primative state. Extermely interesting, and will make you look at history in a different way.
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this has really interesting material, but I've read like 3 books while reading this one. and I don't read a lot.
I feel like it would be a great curriculum book...as a pleasure read it kind of sits next to my copy of The Iliad.