around Australia and New Guinea the colonist would travel to a new island and would adapt and populate the island. Because of this it brought an unprecedented golden age of successful human population explosions. Because of the population explosions‚ Australia would have had a massive head start that would of propelled human development for a long time. Chapter 2 The Maori and Moriori were of the same ancestry but they had gone to different islands with different types of environments‚ so the Moriori
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Reflection on Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond: A Genius or a Nut Case? My Review of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel It was the prehistory of the world that drew attention to Diamond’s brain that gave him the wonderful thought of writing this book about how our world is today‚ with the differences of culture‚ cargo‚ religions‚ skin color‚ etc. One simple question his friend Yali asked‚ “Why is it that you white people develop so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little
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[pic] Guns Germs and Steel Humans have lived on this planet for thousands of years. Over the time‚ they learned‚ developed‚ acquired knowledge‚ and civilized in the process. Yet‚ this learning can’t be construed to be complete‚ leaving a lot to be learned. Along the way‚ human race has evolved by generating vast amounts of food‚ domestication of plant and animals‚ along with battles and illnesses. The primitive human who survived on hunting has reformed into modern human as we see
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies written by Jared Diamond travels through the different aspects of human societies starting from modern human’s pre-Homo ancestors comparing the different variations that have occurred throughout time‚ ending at the modern Homo sapiens in the world today. The focus of this book is why some societies strive while other fail. Diamond looked at the different advantages and disadvantages of the areas these societies lived in and in his own words deriving
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Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Why do some nations have so much material wealth while so many others have so little? This was the question Jared Diamond posed in his book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel. After identifying a point in time when all societies were roughly equal (over 13‚000 years ago)‚ Diamond identified the key variables that allowed some societies to develop highly complex‚ material-rich societies‚ while others developed at much slower rates. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel uncovers how
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ancestors of humans began to develop many years ago. Human ancestors began walking straight up around 4 million years ago. Archaeologists called this period of new technology and inventions the Great Leap Forward. After the Great Leap Forward‚ the human race started to expand its territory. Many humans stayed in Africa and Eurasia for many years. The approximate dates for human arrival in the Americas happened at least 12‚000 years ago. Diamond considers the fates of human societies because the areas
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Instructor: Judith L. Tucker‚ M.S Class: Crim 174 In this video‚ Guns‚ germs‚ and steel are a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. His purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Why Europeans were the ones to conquer the world? As Diamond states that questions asked based on guns‚ germs‚ and steel are the biggest‚ most fascinating
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Essay Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is an amazing book. When I first looked at it I told myself I would never be able to read it because it was so big‚ but I knew I had to. By the title I thought it was going to be about the Civil War. When I began reading Yali’s question I realized that it was about early civilizations and their advancements. When I started reading the book it was very boring and I didn’t know how I was going to finish it. As I got to around page 75 I began to
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In the story Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond pages 17-21 Jared is trying to understand why humans are developed differently‚ he is also trying to determine why only certain communities of people has became powerful. The author also goes on to tell us readers about the many different inequalities between civilizations in the modern world. Jared met a man name Yali‚ Yali was a politician. During the reading Yali was trying to come up with solutions to questions that he was asked‚ concerning
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Ryan Maierle/Global 2H/Guns‚ Germs and Steel What is “Yali’s question”? “Yali’s question” is “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?” (Diamond 14). By “cargo‚” Yali is referring to wealth and technology‚ which leads to power and dominance. Essentially‚ Yali wants to know why was there is such a disparity between the lifestyle of the average New Guinean versus the average European or American? In other
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