Yali’s Question---Prologue: While many are opposed to answering Yali’s question‚ finding the answer is vital. If we found out how or why the American and European countries progressed to where they are now we could potentially rid the world of poverty. When many other peoples such as Australia‚ New Guinea‚ many Pacific Islands‚ most part of the America’s and small parts of South Africa lived as farming tribes‚ much of Europe‚ Asia‚ North Africa were industrializing. Industrialization‚ to introduce
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killed a lot of Aztecs because they were unfamiliar with the disease‚ and because of that they couldn’t cure themselves or others. When I read this I knew there were way more diseases that could of killed the Aztecs. With this argument and example I did some research. For this topic I will argue against Diamond’s argument using valid information. First and foremost‚ smallpox first diffused from India and Egypt. It diffused all over the world mostly in Europe. Smallpox were first introduced to the
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Chapter 16 Summary Most of the world’s largest countries are extremely multicultural. China is a great exception. The vast majority of Chinese people speak Mandarin or a similar language‚ and most Chinese families have considered themselves Chinese for millennia. Diamond theorizes that China was once as linguistically and culturally diverse as Russia or Brazil‚ but that China began its process of unification far earlier. To support this point‚ Diamond turns first to Chinese languages. Mandarin
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Chapter 1 1. The main lesson of chapter one was explaining how humans came to be and major jumps in our development. 2. I agree with diamonds ideas because it is scientifically proven that humans started by evolving from monkeys in Africa 3. That people developed certain things suddenly instead of gradually‚ that the clovis was responsible for many mass extinctions of large mammals around 11‚000 B.C. Chapter 2 1. Looks at the effect of the climate on the civilization being a small group of
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The Overall Theme of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond The overall theme of Diamond’s novel has to do with the progression of the human race in different areas of the world. He said that the development of different people was not based off of genetic composition but their location on the earth. Diamond gives many examples to back up his claim. Diamond uses many different examples from different time periods and different areas of the world. He starts at around 11‚000 BCE with the earliest
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discovered other civilizations. Information was exchanged and shared as we continued to develop. Often what one lacked in materials and expertise‚ the other had in abundance. Ideas were shared. We shared‚ for example‚ more efficient ways of killing with gun powder. We shared diseases common for one group into a group where no antibodies had built up through successive generations of exposure. We shared building materials and sky scraper rose up. This shows that all these things link back to Necessity
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“Countries grow at different rates because they accumulate capital at different rates.” Is this true? Explain your answer. Since the Industrial Revolution‚ economists have attempted to explain why certain countries economies grow at greater rates than others. The post-Keynesian era saw the introduction of the Harrod-Domar model of economic growth. This model explained an economy’s growth rate by observing the level of saving and productivity of capital in the economy. The neo-classical Solow-Swann
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Compare & Contrast All guns serve different purposes. Guns have been a part of American history for many years. Many different kinds of guns have been used for many different types of jobs. Just as police use guns for law enforcement‚ hunters use guns to harvest game and they have different guns for different game. The two most commonly used firearms of hunters‚ are the rifle and the shotgun. One of the great things about having a well-made shotgun is that they are not very expensive and
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success or struggles of a civilization. Some of the factors are population‚ economics‚ resources‚ and many others. In the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ the civilization of Eurasia is examined in detail in order to reveal why Eurasia was ultimately successful. Diamond argues that Eurasia was successful because of their agriculture‚ geography‚ and their immunity to germs‚ which I agree with. Diamond talks about how agriculture played a role in the success of Eurasia. Diamond says that Eurasia
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similarity quickly as well. People used domesticated crops rather than those that grew naturally. This shows that people easily adapted the Fertile Crescent’s food production. Chapter 10: Eurasia has covered the largest East to West area of any continent. Diamond believes that this is yet another r advantage for Eurasia. Eurasia had “amber fields of grain and spacious skies”. With the New world not having these advantages‚ it slowed diffusion. In the Fertile Crescent‚ plants and animals spread
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