User blog comment:Nkbeeching/Eurasian Supremacy based on Geographic Luck?/@comment-4727448-20120901235818/@comment-4780584-20120902000554

thats why i said eurasia the book goes into extensive dtail on china and how most of south east asian cultures were actually from southern china before being evicted by the tibetin-sino speaking han from northern china, who displaced the original natives of south east asia who were similar to nowadays new guinians. and china and the fertile cresent are considered the founders of the modern world order based on their discovery of writing, agriculture and other stuff that later trasited throughout eurasia and ultimately lead to eurasian glory. The deciding factor was domesticated grains such as wheat, rice and barley, and the big mammels of eurasia that helped produce the major killer deseases of our time.