Indo-Europeans have. While the world around them was developing, the New Guineans were completing tasks the same as their ancestors did many years before them. The reasons the New Guineans are frozen in time is because mainly of its geography. In “Guns, Germs, and Steel” Diamond
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In Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author proves a point that the formation of human history developed differently all over the globe because of science. Jared Diamond explained how this is true using facts from science. The author wrote that, “The fourth and last set of factors consists of continental differences in area or total population size. A larger area or population means more potential inventors, more competing societies, more innovations available to adopt- and more pressure
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond had been having a conversation with a New Guinean politician, Yali, when he asked a strange question. “Why do you white men have so much cargo, and we New Guineans have so little?” Diamond was confused by the question at first, and had no idea how to answer it. Why had European civilization developed at such a fast rate, compared to other peoples around the world? Diamond set himself to the task of finding out, and spent years answering this question. Yali’s
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Assignment A. Yali's question is "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we block people had little cargo of our own?" The Americans brought over lots of material goods in their ships. Yali asks why there is such a difference in between him (and people like him) and the Americans, especially why there's a great difference in wealth and power. And how race may play a role in how advanced people are. B. Pizarro successfully
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In Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, the author talks about how the continent of Africa became what it is now through the migrations of the Bantu people. Africa had many types of languages and one of the most important ones to this day is Bantu. The people who spoke Bantu had traveled around the continent impacting the rest of the people to convert to their language. After others joined the bandwagon, the other languages began to fade. The author talks about this when he writes, “Only
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In this chapter of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, he talks about how Eurasians invented firearms and steel equipment instead of the Sub –Saharan Africans. Diamond also talks about how most inventions that were made took a long time until it became widespread and popular. His opinion is that inventions are only made because something in the society isn’t “clicking”. Diamond talks about how an invention is made and after it is made, the inventor actually has to find a purpose for it, and
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we see around us have once been a mystery in the past. The constant curiosity of a human being challenges the human race to find the explanation of how things are created and how things work. Now on the first documentary seen is entitled Guns, Germs, and Steel. Upon researching more about the documentary, I discovered that the documentary was based upon a book that explores the theory of Jared Diamond on why there is a clear divide between countries that have technologies available to them and other
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From the opening line of the preface, Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel is nothing if not an ambitious work: “This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years” (Diamond, 9). This is a bit misleading, however, as Diamond’s motivation is not simply to provide an overview of our species since the dawn of civilization; his aim is to answer the question of “why history unfolded differently on different continents” (Diamond, 9). In the near five-hundred pages of
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In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond a man by the name Yali was walking along a beach as was Jared Diamond. As they were walking together, Yali asked Diamond, “Why is it you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea but we black people had little cargo of our own.” This questioned could be answered in many different ways. One explanation could be genes. Many people believe Europeans have the best genes, that they are “biologically different.” Diamond believes
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in present day history. Spanish conquistador Pizarro captures Atahualpa equaling the greatest modern history collision. The only Natives able to resist European capture were those that mastered horse riding and gun usage. Yet, steel, armor, and helmets played a more distinct role than guns. Horses assisted and were a determining factor in defeating the Native Americans. The Spaniards confronted a split realm that murdered the Inca emperor and his beneficiary: smallpox. Communication was by means of
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