How did guns germs and steel impact civilizations?

What impacted the development of civilizations the most? Why did some civilizations develop faster than others? Is there a simple answer? There is a very simple answer. That answer is guns, germs, and steel. So how exactly did guns, germs, and steel affect the course of history? Guns had a major part in our history and are part of the reason why some civilizations were superior to others. "You know, the flintlock rifle, it was, you know, I shouldn’t really say this but it was nearly like as important as a cellphone is today. You can’t go without your cellphone; in those days you couldn’t go without your flintlock rifle.” (ggs) This passage shows how important guns were and how much it was necessary to have one to survive. “They would shoot, hand the gun over, take the next gun, fire, hand the gun over. So every five or six seconds you could fire a shot. See that, that was the important thing.” (ggs) This shows how easy it was to kill somebody and how effective it was because it takes longer to kill somebody with a sword or arrow and you are more guaranteed to kill your enemy with a gun. ”This is a Maxim gun. What made this weapon such a great weapon, as opposed to the old single-shot weapons that had been used in years before, is this gun could fire continuously for up to 500 rounds a minute. It had the equivalent firepower of probably 100 men in a company with single shot weapons.”(ggs) This passagfe is more proof as to why guns were a major change in history the gun had the power to kill many people at once it means that one person with this gun could probably kill hundreds of people with swords or spears. The gun was a huge change to history it changed how people fought. Steel had just as big of an impact as the gun it changed history and civilizations a lot. For all its bluster, the technology of gunpowder was still in its infancy. The real power of the conquistadors lay elsewhere, with the production of steel. Toledo had some of the best sword smiths in the world. But why were people here able to craft deadly steel weapons, while the Incas were still making simple bronze tools?(ggs) steel was just as important because steel was much lighter than bronze so it was a better tool to make weapons because lighter things are easier to handle. There was nothing innately brilliant about Europeans themselves that allowed them to be the ones to make high quality swords. Just as with guns, swords were the result of a long process of trial and error that began outside Europe. People started working with metal in the Fertile Crescent 7,000 years ago, and because Europe is geographically close to the fertile crescent, Europeans inherited this metal technology.
But they took this technology on to a new level. European soldiers demanded stronger, longer, sharper swords. “ (ggs) There was nothing special about Europeans it was just that Europeans had access to steel. The rapier, with its extra long blade, was developed as a dueling weapon, but became so fashionable in Renaissance Europe; it was the sword of choice for any aspiring gentleman.(ggs) steel was very important you could make different kinds of weapons with one metal. Germs is also one of the biggest reasons for a change and superiority between civilizations. : As soon as they entered the tropics, Europeans and their imported animals had fallen victim to terrible disease. Fevers wracked their population. (ggs) This shows what kind of effect germs had on people and how deadly it was to populations. In the New World, the germs had been a weapon on the side of the Europeans killing indigenous people. (ggs) This is just another reason why germs had big effects since Europeans went to different places it spread to other people and people died. They built settlements by the rivers and lakes they used for water, in places infested by mosquitoes. Thousands died.(ggs) Thousands of people died because of the lakes water because mosquitos infested it and poisoned the water. So this affected human history the most who could’ve guessed that germs, guns, and steel played such a big role in history. These 3 things are the reason why americans are superior to new Guineans and why we have more cargo. This is why we are advanced its not just the color of our skin or because we have superior genes its guns, germs, and steel.