Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies Quotes
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.