Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Quineshia Tucker August 19‚ 2011 AP World History 30 Block Jared Diamond was born on September 10‚ 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He was raised by two highly intelligent people. Mrs. Diamond‚ his mother‚ was a linguist while his father‚ Mr. Diamond was a physician. He grew to love science due to his intellectual upbringing. He was born to a Bessarabian Jewish family. His father attended Harvard University of Medical. Though Jared attended
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Video Questions/ Answers Episode 1 Name: Cindy Liu Per______ Jared Diamond has a theory about what causes huge discrepancies among different countries‚ and he says it boils down to geographic luck. What was great about the “Fertile Crescent”? The big four livestock animals; cows‚ pigs‚ sheep‚ and goats‚ were native to the Middle East. Also‚ due to its fertile land‚ the Fertile Crescent housed the best crops in the world. The great crops and animals it had benefited the civilizations
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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Honors: Guns‚ Germs and Steel Name: Title of Text: Chapter 2: “A Natural Experiment of History” pp. 53-66 Prediction/Background Knowledge: Vocabulary Words: Focus Question(s): 1. Identify and evaluate the environmental‚ political‚ social and economic factors and outcomes of the clash between the Moriori and Maoiri peoples. Concrete Detail/CD (Text‚ page #) (Specific quotes that address FQ) Commentary (CM) (Explain how your CD answers the FQ. Provide context.)
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GUNS‚ GERMS‚ AND STEEL ESSAY Jared Diamond’s novel‚ Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is a speculation about how and why the Europeans ended up being the main power in earlier times and conquered so much of the world. Diamond wonders how the Europeans could have so much power and advanced technology while the rest of the world was still hunting and gathering. Although Diamond is not the first to speculate on this complicated subject‚ his answer is revolutionary. People have attributed Europe’s overwhelming
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel; Diseases Disease influenced a lot of the world’s history‚ how these disease reached human‚ and how over a period of time we became mutated to these diseases. It affected a lot of wars‚ and settlements‚ such as when the new world was discovered. Most of the germs from these diseases came from domesticated animals‚ and people from the Old world. Diseases have even been the cause of wars. Around 1526 the Atahuallpa had won battles in a civil war that had left the
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Pizzaro came back to Charles I saying that Europe had the power to conquer the Americas. There were reasons Pizarro and the Europeans could conquer the Americas… They had better warfare than the Incas. Pizarro’s men had armor rode horseback and used steel compared to their wooden weapons. Eurasia happened to have an abundance of edible material because of the right environment leading to the domestication of plants and animals led the people to settle down in one place instead of being nomads. When
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Atahualpa. In a vain attempt to save Atahualpa‚ his subjects assembled one of the largest ransoms in history‚ an estimated $30 million worth of gold and silver. 7. Pizzarro completely surprised and overwhelmed Atahualpa’s empire; Pizzarro had guns germs and steel where the Incas didn’t. Pizzarro also had horses that terrified the Incas having never seen it. Pizzarro also had a written language and the Incas did not. 8. Availability of more consumable calories means more people equals strength of
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professor. This sparked Jared Diamond to answer this question by turning back the clocks of time to an era where everyone lived the same. This is the beginnings of Diamond’s ground breaking and heartwarming three- part documentary called “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel.” This documentary goes deep into history and answers the main question of‚ “How did our worlds become so different?” Jared Diamond takes on the challenge most philosophers wouldn’t dare try of dividing the haves and have-nots of
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