Name:_______________________________________________ Viewing Guide: Teacher’s Answer Key Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 2 Date:______________ Directions: Before viewing the film, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 2. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. Be prepared to discuss your answers with the class. 1. At the time that the Spanish
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protection and the concentration of political power. Meanwhile, humans living among farm animals developed immunity to the diseases they carried. By the time they encountered other societies, their military power, metal tools and, above all, their deadly germs gave them the decisive advantage. But Diamond is not really talking about axes; mostly he is making a rather subtle argument about the climatic advantages that (in his view) mid-latitude regions have over tropical regions. The world's largest continuous
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reason for such elemental differences for nations around the world. Jared Diamond, on the other hand, uses this distinctive explanation to express how and why these nations around the world developed the way they did and what impacts, such as guns, germs and steel, effected them. By beginning his journey at the earliest stages of agriculture, Diamond is able to explain why certain nations and continents thrived and why others perished because of their geographical location. Agriculture can be described
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Prologue: Yali’s Question #1: Yali’s question is “why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own.” In my opinion, I think Yali is trying to ask how the white people developed more things than the New Guineans even though they are mentally similar. #2: Diamond thinks that we need to look back at 11,000 B.C. because what happened in at this time period led to technological and political inequalities of 1500 A.D
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Guns, Germs and Steel Page 1 GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond, 1997 About the Author: Jared Diamond is a professor of physiology at UCLA School of Medicine. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and was awarded a 1999 National Medal of Science. He is also the author of The Third Chimpanzee. SUMMARY The book asks and attempts to answer the question, once humankind spread throughout the world, why did different populations in different locations
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Although, guns, germs, and steel was a significant part of it, the most substantial benefit was their geography. The Spaniards were able to farm horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens. Having all these domesticated animals meant Spaniards could get desirable meals
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MITCHELL MCCAUGHAN ANTHROPOLOGY 100 WILLIAMS GUNS GERMS AND STEEL PART TWO Even though the documentary, “Guns, Germs and Steel,” delivers a sense of gratitude for the state or our civilization and culture, it poses several moral dilemmas in which are too frequently forgotten. Namely the idea that we stole and murdered for what we have. That our history is rarely accurate to this point and that we are effectively indoctrinated into a system that, to the extent in which they are understood, allows
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Titles: Episode 1: Out of Eden Our thesis is based on Jared Diamond’s book ‘Guns, germs and steel’. Modern history is a product of conquests of European “explorers” and the Conquistadors, who led the way. The local population was utterly decimated by the few who came to the New World. With the aid of Guns, germs and steel, they were successful in taking over those lands. Ever since, people of European origin have dominated the globe, with the same combination of military power, lethal microbes
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background. This book was written by a group of Archeologists, Anthropologists and Social workers. It has very interesting collection of essays responding to Jared Diamond’s popular writings, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Diamond is a Professor of Geography at UCLA, not an anthropologist, archaeologist, or historian. He makes most complex and abstruse publications of historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists easily understandable
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affecting the choice of economic policy and institutions. The view that geography is at the center of the story in shaping the rhythms of economic development dates back to Montesquieu and has been recently revived by Jared Diamond in his book “Guns, germs and steel: The fates of human societies.” This perspective was applied to explain long term patterns of economic growth by Jeffrey Sachs, who argues that growth is related to geographic variables like climate, disease ecology and distance from the coast
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