Answers to Questions About the Book Guns, Germs and Steel
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Prologue:
Throughout the book; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal. Therefore, It's not because Europeans were smarter that they prospered but as a result of their natural resources.
In Chapter 3, Jared Diamond uses an example of an ancient society to help us answer Yali’s question. They Spanish and the Incas have distinct differences in the way their societies prospered as well as their way of everyday life. The Incas had a much larger population than the Spanish, but lacked a few technological advancements that the spanish had developed. Pizarro, leader of Spain, was able to conquer the Incas because of these advancements, along with a large military force. The Inca military consisted of men with little to no armor and they used wooden bats. The weak Inca Military was no match for the Spanish guns and artillery.. The Spanish also carried diseases such as measles and smallpox which wiped out the Inca population due to their lack of medical knowledge and medicine. In the end, although the Incas had a larger population, the Spanish were able to defeat them with their knowledge of military and technology.
Part 2: In Part 2 of the book, Diamond explains the the change in the various ways to obtain food,such as domesticating animals and plants. Some areas of the world that were less advanced than others still used the hunter/gathering method of acquiring food. Other advanced societies used domestication of food and animals to make their land more fertile as well as gaining a higher rate of food production. Domesticating animals and
WHAP Gavigan
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Prologue:
Throughout the book; Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal. Therefore, It's not because Europeans were smarter that they prospered but as a result of their natural resources.
In Chapter 3, Jared Diamond uses an example of an ancient society to help us answer Yali’s question. They Spanish and the Incas have distinct differences in the way their societies prospered as well as their way of everyday life. The Incas had a much larger population than the Spanish, but lacked a few technological advancements that the spanish had developed. Pizarro, leader of Spain, was able to conquer the Incas because of these advancements, along with a large military force. The Inca military consisted of men with little to no armor and they used wooden bats. The weak Inca Military was no match for the Spanish guns and artillery.. The Spanish also carried diseases such as measles and smallpox which wiped out the Inca population due to their lack of medical knowledge and medicine. In the end, although the Incas had a larger population, the Spanish were able to defeat them with their knowledge of military and technology.
Part 2: In Part 2 of the book, Diamond explains the the change in the various ways to obtain food,such as domesticating animals and plants. Some areas of the world that were less advanced than others still used the hunter/gathering method of acquiring food. Other advanced societies used domestication of food and animals to make their land more fertile as well as gaining a higher rate of food production. Domesticating animals and