This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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section two‚ chapter four‚ Diamond argues that superior food production was the root cause beneath the ability of Eurasia’s people to develop the guns‚ germs‚ and steel that conquered the rest of the world. First‚ a population that can produce more food can also produce more
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The author of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is named Jared Diamond.The place of publication was New York City in the United States and published in the year of 1997. There are 498 pages in the book including Index‚ Credits‚ Acknowledgments‚ and Further Readings. There are 446 pages without them. This nonfiction book tries to explain why history advanced differently from people of different regions of the world. Diamond summarizes the book within this sentence‚ "History followed different courses for different
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“Why is there so much inequality in the world: where some societies have so much‚ while others have so little?” The word inequality is defined as “difference in size‚ degree‚ circumstances‚ etc.; lack of equality” In the video Guns‚ Germs and Steel Diamond explains why the world has a massive amount of inequality and some reasons why are animals being used as food‚ milk‚ clothing & etc.‚ animals being used as beasts of burden and useful plants. To begin with‚ one of the reasons why there is so much
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "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?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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history to explain how Africans came to be in current economic status. At the heart of this African story lies the story of European occupation and subsequent colonization of Africa. To weave his story together‚ Diamond explains how through guns‚ germs and steel‚ the Europeans exercised an advantage over the Africans. However‚ Diamond makes it clear that it is Geography‚ rather than above factors‚ that has in history played a greater role in influencing the European and African economic and technological
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unique ones is from Jared Diamond. He created the book “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” which was later turned into a TV miniseries. In it‚ Diamond travels around the world looking for an answer to a question that was asked by a New Guinean. Eventually‚ he turned to history. He looked at different societies and analyzed what caused them to be the way they were. Finally‚ he found an answer; geographic luck. In Episode 1 and 2 of “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” Jared Diamond addresses an important question that has
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In the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ author Jared Diamond offers many different scientific‚ as well as historic‚ reasons for why the events of history unfolded the way they did‚ mainly the question of was there anything specific that lead to Europe becoming the dominate power in the world? Like much of history‚ there is no specific causation that led to European dominance over‚ initially‚ the Americas‚ and then later Africa‚ Australia‚ and parts
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of Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel In the beginning of his book‚ Jared Diamond explains a question that the New Guinea politician Yali‚ proposed to him. The question at large 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 explains that Yali’s question is (putting it mildly) asking how the whites (Europeans) developed more technology. Throughout Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Diamond is analyzing
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 2 Summary—Sergio Gonzalez In Chapter 2 of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ Jared Diamond uses the example of Polynesia to defend his theory whether the environments in different places can predict or determine what is going to happen in a community in the future. Since Polynesia is made up of several islands‚ it can provide several examples of communities that may differ from each other due to its isolation. That is why some countries are richer/poorer than other and what
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