Guns Germs and Steel

While watching Warriors of the Amazon, I was amazed to hear about the decreasing population of the Yanomami due to disease brought by the "white man". It made me think of a book written by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs and Steel.

This book talks about how the modern world was shaped and how it was introduced to new technology such as guns, new weapons, and most important of all the disease and germs that the "conquerers" had brought to the new world which wiped out many of it's indigenous inhabitants.