The Intercommunicating Zone
In the Epilogue of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, history can be approach by concentrating one's attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors. In doing so different continents and their environment have been taken into account. The first part of Diamond's epilogue states that "the term history of people of the different continents have been due to difference in their environment." Hence, because of this certain zones are formed in different areas of the world. One will also take a look at The Adventure of IBN Battuta by Ross E. Dunn. One will see how Dunn's approach is the intercommunicating zone and of the major characteristic of the Islamic intercommunicating zone as it took place in the beginning of the 14th century. A zone form in Eurasia was one such area. The east and west axis of Eurasia is unique to the Eurasian Continent. In the opening of his epilogue Diamond put forward a test for the people. "I expect that the populations of Aboriginal Australia and Eurasia could have been interchanging during the late Pleistocene, the original Aboriginal Australian would now be ones occupying most of the Americas and Australia, as well as Eurasia, while the
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