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Guns, Germs and Steel. Still making my way through it as it can get a little dry but talks about how environment and subsequently food production capacity shaped different populations that spread across the planet and how that translates into the modern world.
Just be aware that actual historians have major objections to the accuracy and assumptions of it. It's a fun read, but it isn't really a scholarly work
Yeah, I don't take it to be more than one guy's musings and theories based on his own research.