Why Didn't Societies Advance at The Same Rate.

Throughout the book, it talks a lot about how human history unfolded differently in different places and why that happened. For example, why did Europe advance at such a faster rate than a place such as Africa? After doing a bit of research, I have reached a conclusion that I think answers the question in part.
The first thing which I think causes societies to not advance as quickly is a countries climate, which leads to a necessity for change, and also brings a societies location into question. In the prologue, it talks a little bit about how climate affects how a society develops, but I think he could have elaborated upon it. Diamond talked about how it colder places like Scandinavia were forced to quickly advance just to survive and keep themselves warm, while people in warmer climates didn't have to worry about freezing to death so they didn't develop as quickly. However, this still doesn't answer how other groups of people living in cold climates, such as the Inuit people, didn't develop at all despite having the same need for advancement to survive. This is where a societies location plays into its development. Scandinavians were lucky enough to live in Europe, which was a hub of technological advancement, and they were able to use that to their advantage. Meanwhile, the Inuits lived in modern-day Northern Canada and Alaska so they wouldn't have had any way to gain advanced technology. Without being near any other advanced civilizations, there wasn't really any way that they could advance even if they wanted to.





Sources:
https://www.edge.org/conversation/jared_diamond-why-did-human-history-unfold-differently-on-different-continents-for-the
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/why-human-society-isn-t-more-or-less-violent-past
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2014/08/countries-development-inequality/

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