Inequality in the development of civilizations has long been a mystery. That is‚ until the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel came out in 1997. This book revealed how geography determined that Europe was fortunate in agriculture‚ domesticated animals‚ germs and Papua New Guinea and Inca were not. Climate is determined by the latitude and longitude of a location. The latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea causes it to have a hot tropical climate year-round and one of the only things they can grow is
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel answers the question about why human societies are so different from each other. He points out that although Africa seemed to have had a head start in developing their society‚ the continent of Eurasia had definite advantages. Eurasia’s advantages over many other continents included environmental factors as well as a location that had many more species of animals that could be domesticated‚ larger scale farming‚ and easier trade of goods
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Guns Germs and Steel Essay review Paper written by: Cydney Dickens Period 6 Jared Diamond was presented with a very interesting question by a man named Yali‚ he was asked‚ “why white men have so much cargo and we new Guineans have so little?” his main answer to question is very simple. He said “it is not based on their race‚ however it is based on their geographic location” this is basically stating‚ if they were closer to a different area things would have turned out differently
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asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences. He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and racist explanations because
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In Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11‚000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
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Guns Germs and Steele Short Bio: Jared Diamond was born and grew up in Boston Massachusetts. He was born September 10‚ 1937. His father was a pediatrician that taught medical students. His father is best known for his exploration on blood diseases of children. Diamond’s mother was a pianist‚ teacher‚ and linguist. He got his love for science from his father‚ from his mother Diamond learned to love reading and writing. Diamond attended a small middle school/high school for 6 years. He expected to
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Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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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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