Essay On Guns Germs And Steel

Throughout the semester, we have watched many films that relates to chapters in our book, the film that I chose is Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Episode 1: Out of Eden. This film illustrates and attains the answer to why some societies and regions like Eurasia and the Americans thrived meanwhile countries like New Guinea did not. Jared Diamond, who is a professor, biologist by training, and specializes in human physiology studied birds in New Guinea. During his quest, he also came upon, why the New Guineans were so much poorer than other people, as he was asked the question, “Why do you white men have so much cargo, while we New Guineans have so little”, cargo referring to material goods brought by westerners. During those times, they thought that this phenomenon was due to race and back then white men felt superior to the population. Diamond disagreed to this
These societies spread into Eurasia and many other places around the world. Their crops grew quickly and they had efficient supply. On the other hand, places like New Guinea had the opposite, it took much power and time and their crops did not thrive. Another advantage that The Middle East had were animal domestication, which was later paired with the invention of plow. The invention of plow made farming more efficient and gave individuals more time to take on other jobs, like pottery, becoming soldiers, jewelers, and metal workers, while the New Guineans did not have big animals to domesticate that were able to do the job. Diamond states these findings as his answer to his research, he states that these reason were why the “white men had so much more cargo than the New Guineans”. These factors gave them big advantages and helped each society flourished and developed more