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​ Annotated Bibliography:

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Print.

It was written by Jared Diamond, a highly reputable scientist and nonfiction author who is also Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA. He is famous for writing other books about other physiological/anthropological subjects. MENTION THAT HE WON A PULITZER The book talks about what allowed Europeans to dominate the other civilizations by their superior weapons technology (guns), population-crippling diseases (germs), and better materials (such as steel), and it says that it was purely a chance of location/geography (in other terms, "real estate") that allowed civilizations to become stronger than others, not because of any differences in intellectual capabilities. This is an incredibly useful source. As opposed to simply stating three important reasons why some civilizations conquered others and leaving it at that, the book delves into detail of what caused the civilizations to get those things, and it provides a broad view of the entire world. It provides a refreshing view on a very claustrophobic issue. It actually does not have any pro-white bias. In fact, if one could say it has bias, it would be anti-white bias, in trying to stay politically correct on a very touchy issue. But as it is saying that it had nothing to do with race, it definitely cannot be biased against any race, except for possibly the white race. However, not much bias can be detected in this book; it's rather objective.

Grabmeier, Jeff. "WHEN EUROPEANS WERE SLAVES: RESEARCH SUGGESTS WHITE SLAVERY WAS MUCH ...... MORE COMMON THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED." Ohio State Research. 13 Oct 2009. Ohio State ...... University, Web. 13 Oct 2009. <[]>.

It was written by Jeff Grabmeier, a director of research communications at Ohio State University. The information was taken from Robert Davis, a history professor at Ohio State University. It describes the enslaving that some African Muslims who lived in North Africa did of other people, at least part of whom were light-skinned, and describes how Robert Davis used a new method of calculating the number of slaves. It's useful because it gave me good information about the enslavement of the people described above, and it gave some more detail on it, as opposed to other sites that just either referred to it quickly or not at all. It is also from a university, so it was probably looked over by the university before it was put online, and it's from a history professor there who was hired and obviously has good credentials. It is possible that there could be a bias in favor of the white people, since Robert Davis is white, and he could have exaggerated the potential number of slaves in order to make the story more "impressive" or "newsbreaking". However, I do not believe that he exaggerated the numbers beyond his own beliefs, since it wouldn't ultimately benefit enough to be worth providing false information to the world.