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Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

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The Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, written by Jared Diamond (1997), documented that throughout human history, hunter-gathers were always subdued by people groups who had transitioned to agriculture.

ALWAYS??? Really?

Explain please how the steppe barbarians menaced and destroyed ever so many agricultural societies for multiple millennia up to when the titular guns & gunpowder became readily available. Horse mounted, bow & lance wielding nomads were a plague on agricultural societies from the Scythians to the Huns to the Mongols to the Tartars before guns stopped them. Yes the civilized did EVENTUALLY win but that has only been since the 1500s!