https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/videos/watch/57c0e77a-ca21-4fbf-a3eb-73d96cfc4907 A critique of chapter 3 of Jared Diamond's book. Alternate title: 'The battle that never happened' Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/BadEmpanada One-time donations: https://ko-fi.com/BadEmpanada Become a member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BadEmpanada/join Follow my Instagram: https://instagram.com/BadEmpanada Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjY9R3_6sxfUViabj93Vnhw Subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/BadEmpanada Sources: [1] Key Concepts in Political Geography, Carolyn Gallaher & others [2] The Inca civil war and the establishment of Spanish power in Peru, John H. Rowe [3] The Conquest of the Incas, John Hemming [4] Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Matthew Restall [5] Using Digital Tools to Construct a Spatial History of Conquest, Jeremy M. Mikecz [6] A Peruvian Chief of State: Manco Inca (1515-1545), George Kubler [7] The Last Days Of The Incas, Kim MacQuarrie Some further critiques, I can't provide links to all of em' but they're easy to find on Google (not an exhaustive list): Environmentalism and Eurocentrism, James M. Blaut Questioning Collapse, Patricia A. McAnany Reexamining the Lore of the “Archetypal Conquistador”: Hernán Cortés and the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, 1519-1521, Thomas Brinkerhoff Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism, Mike Hulme Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian: An Indigenous response to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Michael Wilcox A Human Geographer's Response to Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Case of Agrarian Development and Change in Madagascar, Lucy Jarosz https://savageminds.org/2005/07/25/whats-wrong-with-yalis-question/ https://savageminds.org/2005/07/24/anthropologys-guns-germs-and-steel-problem/ #History #Diamond #Jared Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:42:47 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/lazy-static/avatars/ef51e553-df20-4280-a022-2b8adc4c57e3.jpg https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/videos/watch/57c0e77a-ca21-4fbf-a3eb-73d96cfc4907 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.mountain-adventure-spirit.xyz/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.