became to change. Some people believe that transitioning from hunter-gatherers to agriculturists was one of the best decisions the human race has made. Jared Diamond the author of “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” believes that life changed for the worst. Diamond also believes we never recovered from the agriculturist mistake. Jared Diamond believes that the adoption of agriculture was a terrible idea. Due to becoming agriculturists‚ many new problems occurred that wouldn’t have
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The Worst Mistake? According to Jared Diamond’s text‚ the Agriculture Revolution is thought of being the worst mistake made in human history where as when humans hunted and gathered was the high peak. He also states that domesticating crops brought great confusing creating social classes and inequality between men and women. I completely disagree with this opinion. First of all the Agricultural Revolution was a crucial element when forming earliest civilizations. Second‚ I don’t think that
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Literary Review: “The Worst Mistake In The History of the Human Race” The article “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race” by Jared Diamond was overflowing with an extremely different stance on the globally accepted views of the impact of agriculture. The author stated “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse our existence.” This was the heart of his theory as he depicted agriculture as a curse suffered by mankind‚ to
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really good points that state why agriculture was not a step forward to creating the world that we live in now but actually a huge leap backwards that has led to the oppression of a certain gender and some enslavement of specific races. Another thing I do like about Jared Diamond’s article is that he says it all with one quote‚ “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race”. What that quote does is tell you that we as humans can’t blame our mistakes on other creatures or being but we can blame
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In Jared Diamond’s article "The Worst Mistake in Human History‚" he describes the adoption of agriculture as a catastrophy. At first mention‚ this sounds rediculous. How could one of our greatest advancements possibly be regaurded as the worst mistake in human history? It encouarged civilization and made food easier to come back. Surely this porgession was not catastrophic. The adoption of agriculuture offered much room for advancement. In hunter-gatherer societies‚ people had to move with their
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Yum cha between my culture and our culture Yum cha‚ which is a Chinese style morning and afternoon tea‚ involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum‚ which are small dishes. In expert restaurants‚ staff will commonly wheel around heated trolleys serving small yum cha dishes. Hong Kong also has some western food and local food‚ like mango pudding‚ egg tarts that are desserts. Before Hong Kong was occupied by British‚ which already had “Yum cha”. Then‚ this traditional is important for people
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In the story “The Worst mistake in the History of the Human Race” Diamond raised several different key points about the arrival of agriculture. Diamond‚ Rousseau and Gray was not fond on agriculture‚ but throughout the story they mention how agriculture was bad for humankind because it increased calorie quantity at the cost of quality‚ because it contributed to deep class divisions. Despite its chances of dividing everyone into different groups; the arrival of agriculture is what everyone needed
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that can make someone a poor leader. The worst leader I ever had was my boss at the insurance company I worked for last year. My boss played favorites‚ did not do her work‚ micromanaged‚ lacked human skills‚ and recorded everything wrong that someone had ever done. All of these factors are what made her the worst leader I have ever had in my life. The first reason my boss was the worst leader I ever had was because she played favorites. First‚ my boss was only friendly towards the people that she
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appeasement was a mistake and some suggest that appeasement wasn’t a mistake. Create a table with two headings - ‘A mistake’ and ‘Not a mistake’. Write each argument in the correct column. - Germany deserved a fair deal - Germany treated too harshly at Versailles‚ so were only being given their rightful land. - Germany was growing stronger - Allowed Germany to grow stronger meant it would be far more difficult to defeat. - The British people had to want war - In 1938‚ public opinion was against war
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13 The Worst Mistakein the History of the Human Race Jared Diamond What we eat and how we eat are imPortant both nutritionally and culturally. This selection suggests that how we get what we eat-through gathering and hunting versus agriculture‚ for example-has draThis seemspretty obvious.We all matic consequences. imagine what a struggle it must have been before the We developmentof agricu-lture. think of our ancestors spending their days searching for roots and berries to eat‚or out at the crack
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