AP WORLD HISTORY STUDY GUIDE: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Buy and read the assigned chapters ofthe book. o Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback) o Author: Jared Diamond, Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 1999)
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. . o Bulleted answers to these questions are due the first day of school, worth 50 points Answers MUST BE HANDWRITTEN! Study guides thatwere copied will receive a ZERO! The following strategy is suggested for completing this study guide: 1) Read the questions for the chapter before you start reading 2) Read the entire chapter without writing full answers - Highlight, underline or flag with post-it notes, important sections as you discover them 3) Write your answers to the questions after you have read the entire section or chapter - Most answers should be a few sentences long (Don't write a book!) Keep in mind that all of the answers to these questions are the theories of the book's author, Jared Diamond. Therefore, the words "According to Jared Diamond," can be added to each question. A writing assignment and class discussions will occur in the first week of school.
PROLOGUE: 1. What is "Yali's Question"? 2. How does Diamond reword this question (which becomes the focal question of the entire book)? 3. Briefly describe the various possible answers to the question.
CHAPTER 1: Up to the Starting Line + No questions but read this chapter quickly, focusing on the origins and spread of man * Don't get bogged down in all of the terminology like, Homo Sapien, Cro-Magnon, Clovis, etc. CHAPTER 2: ANatural Experiment of History 4. Why did the Maori and the Moriori evolve differently? 5. How did population density affect economies, social complexity, and political organization? CI{APTER 3: Collision at Cajamarca 6. Who are Atahualpa andPizzano and why was their meeting significant? 7 . Explain the variety of reasons why Pizzano's small force defeated Atahualpa's empire. CHAPTER 4: Farmer