Was Jared Diamond Correct?

The theory Jared Diamond has is that a country's progress was shaped from the beginning by geographical luck.  Was he on track with this?  I would say yes, and so does our Western Civilizations book.  The books says that every country, city, village, etc. all started out in the Paleolithic Age, basically hunters and gatherers.  The people had to go from place to place searching for food and a safe enough place to stay for the time being.  They then developed more into the Neolithic Age where they instead started to settle in one place and not move around as much.  It's not like the people settled in a desert with no resources around, they would probably find places that were resourceful and plentiful.  This is an example of Jared Diamond's theory, geographical luck.  The textbook said how when they settled down the families and individuals were given social statuses and value within the home.  Also, discoveries are made in which large building were once standing.  Too big to be a house, with the layout of a temple.  Polytheism was able to be practiced to protect the community and watch over the people.  This shows how certain civilizations were more advanced than others.  Basically, when people stopped running around and being unsure of what or where their next meal was coming from or where they would sleep, a social ladder came into play.  Because they women were the ones to have children they had to stay in and around the house for the majority of all their time.  This left the men to have more of a say in what the community as a whole would like.  This has also carried over into today's world in certain ways.  The Fertile Crescent was what Jared Diamond spoke lots about, and it was also on about the same latitude, because they shared similar climate, and the same crops were able to grow there.  In the book, Mesopotamia and Egypt were very prosperous, this is led to believing that Jared Diamond was correct and because these cities were all in the same latitude, they were given a head start from the rest of the world.