Guns, Germs And Steel And Geographic Luck

Guns, Germs and Steel somewhat explains how the Europeans were able to conquer Africa and the Americas, but also leaves out some very important information. This Information includes things like political decisions, alliances, human decisiveness, and some information that flaws his theory of “Geographic Luck” (Guns Germs and Steel) . Essentially, Diamond's theory basically claims that Europeans conquered based solely on geographic luck, and leaves out all other information that also impacted the situation.
Diamond's theory leaves out human decisiveness and politics role in the conquering of Africa and the Americas. Diamond's theory may work on a much smaller scale, but unfortunately the conquering was much more complicated than geographic
When I first heard about Diamond's theory It made perfect sense, maybe everything we have today in different parts of the world has to do with where our ancestors were before us. However, after reading some criticisms I realized that it’s much more complex than that and a larger scale some things don’t add up. Diamond claims that civilizations advancements were based entirely on geographic luck. He mainly focuses on the edge the East-West axis has on the North-South, but this is too simple, Professor J.R. Mcneill says that “different parts of Eurasia at similar latitudes have very different climates.” Yes, Latitude matters, but not just latitude, because climates have to come into play.

Jared Diamond's theory of Guns, Germs and Steel works on a simple scale but leaves out very important information that make the situation much more complicated then he makes it sound. Diamond leaves out politics, human's ability to make decisions, and climate, and all of these things have an affect on his theory. I have come to the conclusion that Jared Diamond's theory of Geographic Luck works on diluted degree, but does not function on a more intricate