history to explain how Africans came to be in current economic status. At the heart of this African story lies the story of European occupation and subsequent colonization of Africa. To weave his story together‚ Diamond explains how through guns‚ germs and steel‚ the Europeans exercised an advantage over the Africans. However‚ Diamond makes it clear that it is Geography‚ rather than above factors‚ that has in history played a greater role in influencing the European and African economic and technological
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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
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more unique ones is from Jared Diamond. He created the book “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” which was later turned into a TV miniseries. In it‚ Diamond travels around the world looking for an answer to a question that was asked by a New Guinean. Eventually‚ he turned to history. He looked at different societies and analyzed what caused them to be the way they were. Finally‚ he found an answer; geographic luck. In Episode 1 and 2 of “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” Jared Diamond addresses an important question that
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and how the Spanish peoples gems led to the deaths of many south Americans 2. Yes‚ because many of the Incans and other natives living in south America and mexico were killed off by the Spanish peoples germs and diseases 3. Almost 95% of incans an south Americans were wiped out due to new germs‚ many other south Americans were killed off by the Spanish’s superior weaponry\ Chapter 4 1. Describes how food production came to be by farming and the domestication of animals 2. Yes‚ much of the food
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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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Chapter 11 Sex and Gender Sex: refers to the biological and anatomical differences between men and women. Primary sex characteristics: genitalia used for reproduction. Secondary sex characteristics: boobs‚ hips‚ deep voice‚ facial hair. Hermaphrodite: a person in whom sexual differentiation is ambiguous or incomplete. Transsexual: a person who believes that they were born the wrong sex. Transvestite: male who lives as women or vice versa but does not alter their genitalia. Sexual orientation:
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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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themselves and not let anyone or anything take it away from them. As I said power is received by being on top and in charge‚ but it is also received through conquest. Conquest can make someone feel powerful and cause them to be in control. In Guns‚ Germs and Steel Diamond says‚ “The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities‚ which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces”(Diamond 289-290). The
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people were savages with rings in their noses. He talked about how when teaching the blacks‚ they only teach them about the Caucasians part of it and there is nothing about the Africans who made‚ developed and refined these practices‚ equations and theories. For example‚ when studying language‚ the students are told that the natural black dialect is something that is wrong rather than that it is a form of “broken-down African
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This chapter opens up with the mysterious Phaistos disk that was found by archaeologists on the island of Crete in 1908 and its interesting technological aspects. Many inventions were made not for need but for mere curiosity and hobby. Diamond makes two main conclusions about technology is that it develops cumulatively and that most technology seems to have been invented for curiosity‚ therefore its uses are developed after it is made. To determine if an invention will be accepted there are four
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