Guns, Germs And Steel And Geographic Luck

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 situation.
Diamond's theory leaves out human decisiveness and politics role in the conquering of Africa and the Americas. Diamond's theory may work on a much smaller scale, but unfortunately the conquering was much more complicated than geographic
luck. One criticism of the theory written by Jason Antrosio states that “Diamond glosses over that because you have guns and steel does not mean you should use them for colonial and imperial uses.” Basically what this criticism is saying is that Diamond leaves out human decision making, and that just because you have the “mere ability to behave brutally does not excuse him from doing so”(Antrosio). Diamond basically leaves out human's ability to behave kindly and respectfully, and basically explains that if you have guns, germs and steel, why not use them to your advantage? Even if it means behaving ruthlessly.
Diamond's theory gives off the impression that Europeans conquered accidentally. Another criticism composed by Jason Antrosio expresses that “For Diamond, guns and steel were technologies that happened to fall into the hands of ancestors. And, just to make things fair, they only benefited Europeans slightly over Native Americans, because the real conquest was really accomplished by germs” I agree that some parts of conquering was based on technology. Additionally I believe it’s not just technology, there were lots of other things that come into play that I think Diamond doesn’t include in his theory.
Although Diamond's theory works on a smaller, simple scale, once you realize how complex the situation is, somethings just simply don’t sum up.
When I first heard about Diamond's theory It made perfect sense, maybe everything we have today in different parts of the world has to do with where our ancestors were before us. However, after reading some criticisms I realized that it’s much more complex than that and a larger scale some things don’t add up. Diamond claims that civilizations advancements were based entirely on geographic luck. He mainly focuses on the edge the East-West axis has on the North-South, but this is too simple, Professor J.R. Mcneill says that “different parts of Eurasia at similar latitudes have very different climates.” Yes, Latitude matters, but not just latitude, because climates have to come into play.

Jared Diamond's theory of Guns, Germs and Steel works on a simple scale but leaves out very important information that make the situation much more complicated then he makes it sound. Diamond leaves out politics, human's ability to make decisions, and climate, and all of these things have an affect on his theory. I have come to the conclusion that Jared Diamond's theory of Geographic Luck works on diluted degree, but does not function on a more intricate
level.