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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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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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Yali’s Question * Yali’s Question: Why is it that white people developed more cargo than us black people? * New Guinea-Stone Age until 200 years ago. * 11‚000 B.C.-all humans are hunter gatherers. * New Guineans proven more intellectually superior than advanced races. * Climates effect-cold enhances creativity?-no-Mayans‚ pottery‚ art‚ science‚ flourished in tropics. * River Valleys foster centralized rule?-no‚ centralized rule has come before agricultural
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Chapter 1 Even though Africa had a massive time advantage America had a much greater environmental diversity‚ so the Native American’s would have a advantage over thee Africans. Because of all the islands 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
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Cited: Diamond‚ Jared. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel. 1st ed. New York‚ NY: W. W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 1999. 195-292. Print.
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Milo Fradianni Germs‚ Guns and Steel WHAP Gavigan Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond Prologue: Throughout the book; Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal
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Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating‚ but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea‚ as opposed to‚ say‚ an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes" of his book: the dramatic
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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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Book Review Katrina Yurkiw Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond W. W. Norton and Company April 1st‚ 1999 480 Pages ISBN: 0393317552 Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. Diamond’s purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Diamond’s aim is to answer Yali’s question: Why is that white people
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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
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