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Guns, Grems And Steel Book Report

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Advanced Placement World History 5th period
Luella High School
By
Erica Snapp
November 8, 2007





Erica Snapp
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies depicts the different aspects of how humans and their societies came to be, and started off. The author describes in great detail human evolution and tells the history all the way until the time period which we live today. Jared Diamond connects the human evolution to the culture they have and how the different cultures got started. He gives so much background details that it makes the book much easier to comprehend. Most impressively, he crams 15, 000 years of history all over the world in 440 pages.
In Africa, fossil evidence was found of some of the earliest, first starting species of great apes (gorillas, chimpanzee, and pygmy chimpanzee or “Bonobo”). From these they also found indications of some of the earliest stages of human evolution. Human societies and history began in Africa over 7 million years ago. Later they spread to Mesopotamia and Indonesia. It is said that the apes’ populations split, some into the modern gorillas, chimps and the others into humans. Around four million years ago fossils were found that suggested the chimps started to develop an upright posture; later (around 2.5 million years ago) they saw an increase in body size as well as brain size.
In the beginning of time, all people on Earth lived in small tribes known as hunter-gathers. Hunter-gatherers usually followed the migration of the food they tracked (most were considered nomads.) Women usually gathered plants and fruits and a source of food, while men hunted wild life for sources of food (meat) clothing and housing (the fur/ skin and bones.) The different types of hunter-gathers competed. Meaning, if one tribe of hunter-gathers found a new food production,...