In the book ‘’Guns‚ Germs and Steel’’ By Jared Diamond explores a brief history of the human world and how it has become what it is today. When Jared Diamond takes a visit to New Guinea‚ he is encountered by a local politician on the beach whose name is Yali‚ and as they walked and talked together‚ Yali asked a simple question “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?’’ .That question made Jared go on the
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Major Themes of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel As Jared Diamond examines the major factors of a great civilization after being posed by Yali’s question‚ he comes to an astounding realization. It is that Asians and Europeans came to be powerful not because they were smarter or better than other civilizations‚ but because they were luckier in terms of geography. Diamond focuses on the idea that the success of a society is not catalyzed by genetics or natural superiority‚ but instead by these two major
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel somewhat explains how the Europeans were able to conquer Africa and the Americas‚ but also leaves out some very important information. This Information includes things like political decisions‚ alliances‚ human decisiveness‚ and some information that flaws his theory of “Geographic Luck” (Guns Germs and Steel) . Essentially‚ Diamond’s theory basically claims that Europeans conquered based solely on geographic luck‚ and leaves out all other information that also impacted the
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel: The Ultimate Sociological Thesis or Blind Determinism? If there is anything certain about the current state and history of our species‚ it is that there are and always have been vast discrepancies in terms of wealth and advancement between the various civilizations that inhabit our planet. The underlying causes of these discrepancies have long been a matter of discussion. Arguments range from racial superiority to the existence of societal institutions to geographical determinism
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Time can provide connections and ideas of answers to complicated and intricate questions. In the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ the author encounters a man named Yali while on a trip to new Guinea. Yali asks Diamond a question that is essentially about advantages and disadvantages between different civilizations. The author cannot provide a definite answer. Later in the book‚ Jared Diamond describes how Francisco Pizarro‚ a Spanish conquistador‚ easily overcame the Incas using European
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The article‚ Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Book Review The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book‚ he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers‚ he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond’s Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel answers the question about why human societies are so different from each other. He points out that although Africa seemed to have had a head start in developing their society‚ the continent of Eurasia had definite advantages. Eurasia’s advantages over many other continents included environmental factors as well as a location that had many more species of animals that could be domesticated‚ larger scale farming‚ and easier trade of goods
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Guns Germs and Steele Short Bio: Jared Diamond was born and grew up in Boston Massachusetts. He was born September 10‚ 1937. His father was a pediatrician that taught medical students. His father is best known for his exploration on blood diseases of children. Diamond’s mother was a pianist‚ teacher‚ and linguist. He got his love for science from his father‚ from his mother Diamond learned to love reading and writing. Diamond attended a small middle school/high school for 6 years. He expected to
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B. In section one‚ chapter one‚ Diamond explains that the ancestors broke off from Africa as a separate lineage from animals about 7 million years ago. Human ancestors began walking upright around 4 million years ago‚ and they moved to Eurasia around 1 or 2 million years ago. Sometime between 100‚000 and 50‚000 years ago‚ not long after human fossils began to resemble modern homo sapiens‚ the human race had an explosion of new technological and artistic innovations that far surpassed anything previously
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