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Society's potential for advanced development may have been
determined by simple geography.
The first episode examines how a society's potential for advanced
development may have been determined by simple geography. Diamond
shows how a few lucky societies in places like the Fertile Crescent
benefited from access to animals that could be domesticated and
plants that could form the basis of agriculture. As Diamond and
several experts show, geographic advantages such as surpluses of
food allowed those cultures to trade and develop technologies that
gave them an ever-increasing edge over their neighbors, leading in
turn to the development of successful civilizations.