Assertion: starch's availability | /r/CapableOf | contribute to broad historical patterns
Facets:
value: significantly
type: DEGREE
value: in southwestern eurasia
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond proposed that the availability of barley, along with other domesticable crops and animals, in southwestern Eurasia significantly contributed to the broad historical patterns that human history has followed over approximately the last 13,000 years; i.e., why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others.