Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, the main idea of the book is that geological factors influenced the development of human society. These factors include resources that may have been available to some societies at the time, but not others. 

It is about differences of human societies between the different continents over the last 11,000 years. Those differences are largely due to differences in the wild plant and animal species available for domestication, and in the continental axes.