Guns, Germs And Steel By Jared Diamond

In the book ‘’Guns, Germs and Steel’’ By Jared Diamond explores a brief history of the human world and how it has become what it is today. When Jared Diamond takes a visit to New Guinea, he is encountered by a local politician on the beach whose name is Yali, and as they walked and talked together, Yali asked a simple question “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?’’ .That question made Jared go on the journey of his life. The book explains how three major powers: Guns, Germs, and Steel brought by the Europeans, conquered the world and raises a simple question on why many societies and civilizations were different back then and how it has shaped the fates of humanity as it is today.
It all started in pre-history time, when everyone in the world were living pretty much the same as hunter gatherers in small groups and moved forward as a living. But in a small village located in the Middle East,
These germs that Europeans carried where animal viruses that developed into human viruses because both came into contact where farming usually happens. When Europeans went to the Americas to conquer many places, they eventually ended off killing a lot of Natives with their animal carried viruses. This was such a tragedy that only few native Indians survived the different types of viruses that Europeans carried. Germs that carried over to natives in the Americas made them very weak and Europeans had most control of them, without germs Europeans would have not been able to conquer most of the Americas. Germs nowadays is still a huge problem in today’s Africa where Malaria kills thousands of people each day and also killed off many Europeans in the late 1800s that tried to settle in central