Original sentence: The prologue sucks
Edited sentence: " Other peoples, having thrown off colonial domination, lag in wealth and power.15) He says that, unable to find a satisfactory explanation from the best-known accounts of history, he decided to make his own investigation to seek the root causes of Eurasian dominance.He says that the same sort of question seems to apply elsewhere: "People of Eurasian origin... dominate the world in wealth and power.Still others, he says, "have been decimated, subjugated, and in some cases even exterminated by European colonialists.The conversation turned to the obvious differences in power and technology between Yali's people and the Europeans who dominated the land for 200 years, differences that neither of them considered due to any genetic superiority of Europeans.The prologue to the book opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician.Yali asked, using the local term "cargo" for inventions and manufactured goods, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own