Guns Germs And Steel Episode 1 Analysis
Today’s Inequality
Jared Diamond gets asked an important question “Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little”. To Diamond, the question seemed obvious, yet he didn’t have an answer. That’s why in “Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1” Jared Diamond discusses the problem of why some countries have so much while others rarely enough to survive. Also how those rich countries start developing and inventing new technology to help them thrive.
At first, during the age of the cavemen, they hunted for both animals and edible plants for survival. There are still groups like that today, for example, the Guineans, who still live everyday life the way that their ancestors did thousands of years ago, hunting for animals and plants to gather. They would also keep moving, and build shelters out of wood wherever they find enough resources to survive. The problem was not with the people, but it was with the environment and how there were not any easy plants to grow or animals to raise that would help them survive. For example, sheep, cow, or any other farm animals that helped to farm. However, the problem is that their ecosystem does not support that kind of life. Also, they do not have enough knowledge or money to change the ecosystem for it to …show more content…
This also allowed one portion of the population to think about other things like creating empires, and to start making up religions. One huge example is Ancient Egypt “What allowed the Egyptians to build great pyramids while most of the world was still scratching out a living?” (Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1). Ancient Egyptians were building permanent shelters that would stand to this day, while almost the rest of the world still only relied upon hunting and gathering. Then they started affecting the environment with all the other buildings that they built such as the
Jared Diamond gets asked an important question “Why you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little”. To Diamond, the question seemed obvious, yet he didn’t have an answer. That’s why in “Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1” Jared Diamond discusses the problem of why some countries have so much while others rarely enough to survive. Also how those rich countries start developing and inventing new technology to help them thrive.
At first, during the age of the cavemen, they hunted for both animals and edible plants for survival. There are still groups like that today, for example, the Guineans, who still live everyday life the way that their ancestors did thousands of years ago, hunting for animals and plants to gather. They would also keep moving, and build shelters out of wood wherever they find enough resources to survive. The problem was not with the people, but it was with the environment and how there were not any easy plants to grow or animals to raise that would help them survive. For example, sheep, cow, or any other farm animals that helped to farm. However, the problem is that their ecosystem does not support that kind of life. Also, they do not have enough knowledge or money to change the ecosystem for it to …show more content…
This also allowed one portion of the population to think about other things like creating empires, and to start making up religions. One huge example is Ancient Egypt “What allowed the Egyptians to build great pyramids while most of the world was still scratching out a living?” (Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1). Ancient Egyptians were building permanent shelters that would stand to this day, while almost the rest of the world still only relied upon hunting and gathering. Then they started affecting the environment with all the other buildings that they built such as the