Jared Diamond Research Paper

Inspired by a question that put him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Jared Diamond embarked on a worldwide quest to understand the roots of global inequality. This inequality lies in the question of - Why were Europeans the ones to conquer the most amount of land around the world? The answer, according to Jared Diamond, is guns, germs, steel, and geographical luck. Geographical luck is what stemmed and brought up a vast majority of the Europeans luck in acquiring such great land masses over the years. It mostly started in what can be described as the “fertile crescent” where there were adequate resources for survival and development. These resources consisted of good soil and decent weather for farming and big
After some time, those people began to create steel tools such as the equipment used by the large animals to plow the fields. Tools made out of steel were much stronger and a lot better than tools made out of copper. Steel tools such as the rapier swords used by Spanish conquistadors and their harkabus guns, when encountering new fights and people, were like bringing a gun to a fist fight. Although other civilizations had weapons like spears, the spanish conquistadors’ guns and steel swords were much more powerful and effective. Finally, the last part to Jared Diamond’s answer, is germs. When the Europeans traveled to places like the Americas or the South Africa, they brought their diseases ,such as smallpox, along with them. The natives to these places (with an exception of the tropics of Africa) had not experienced these diseases before so they had no immunities or antibodies for them like the Europeans did. As a result, many of the land’s natives got very sick and/or died from these new diseases that plagued them. Disease was the Europeans greatest weapons except for in the tropics of