Guns Germs And Steel Essay Review
Guns Germs and Steel
Essay review
Paper written by:
Cydney Dickens
Period 6
Jared Diamond was presented with a very interesting question by a man named Yali, he was asked, “why white men have so much cargo and we new Guineans have so little?” his main answer to question is very simple. He said “it is not based on their race, however it is based on their geographic location” this is basically stating, if they were closer to a different area things would have turned out differently for them, for example Diamond said they could have been the ones to invent helicopters. Mr.
Diamond believes the people of New Guinea are more intelligent that the westerns because they have a better knowledge of taking care of themselves then …show more content…
I think Diamonds response was very interesting it made a lot of sense however I also think it has to do with the fact that back then most of the countries were partnered up and only traded or helped people they knew and trusted. The autocatalytic process is "... what is termed an autocatalytic process: that is, one that speeds up at a rate that increases with time, because the process catalyzes itself." I think this process is something that explains an object that grows and produces by itself. I think farming is an autocatalytic process because the plants grow and produce by themselves, water, sunlight, and all other resources help the process however it’s mostly an automatic process. I think diamond disagrees with the animal distribution because the animals have no idea what cultural differences are so they settled mated and had children in whatever area was convenient and it did not really depend on culture, it depends more on WHAT culture took WHAT animal
Essay review
Paper written by:
Cydney Dickens
Period 6
Jared Diamond was presented with a very interesting question by a man named Yali, he was asked, “why white men have so much cargo and we new Guineans have so little?” his main answer to question is very simple. He said “it is not based on their race, however it is based on their geographic location” this is basically stating, if they were closer to a different area things would have turned out differently for them, for example Diamond said they could have been the ones to invent helicopters. Mr.
Diamond believes the people of New Guinea are more intelligent that the westerns because they have a better knowledge of taking care of themselves then …show more content…
I think Diamonds response was very interesting it made a lot of sense however I also think it has to do with the fact that back then most of the countries were partnered up and only traded or helped people they knew and trusted. The autocatalytic process is "... what is termed an autocatalytic process: that is, one that speeds up at a rate that increases with time, because the process catalyzes itself." I think this process is something that explains an object that grows and produces by itself. I think farming is an autocatalytic process because the plants grow and produce by themselves, water, sunlight, and all other resources help the process however it’s mostly an automatic process. I think diamond disagrees with the animal distribution because the animals have no idea what cultural differences are so they settled mated and had children in whatever area was convenient and it did not really depend on culture, it depends more on WHAT culture took WHAT animal