Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Guns, Germs and Steel.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Essay | Essay

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Guns, Germs and Steel

Summary: It is questions asked about the book Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond and what I thought about the book, the parts I read of it.
Yali's question to Professor Diamond was "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 other words as Professor Diamond stated " Why did wealth and power become distributed as they now are, rather than in some other way""

The capture of Atahuallpa by Pizzaro explains that Europeans were able to colonize in the new world instead of the other way around because Pizzaro had the advantages of "military technology, diseases, organized political organization of European states and writing" and in the capture when the Europeans rejected Cajamarca's gods and Europeans attacked beginning with trumpets being sounded, the noise of guns going off, rattles on horses, making the Indians confused since they had never seen or heard of any thing like this before.

The more availability of plants and animals...

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