Guns Germs And Steel Summary
Guns, Germs and Steel Guns, Germs and Steel is a documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the 13,000 years journey of man kind’s evolution and societal development. Diamond’s book has been praised by many however, it also created controversy among scientists around the world. According to many scientist believe his theory of the geography and the environment being the main caused of shaping of the world as we know it today should be criticized. Diamond takes upon the task of answering a New Guinean friend named Yali’s questions that was an easy question with a complex answer, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people have little cargo of our own?”
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The three largest known civilizations within Latin America were the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. These empires were known for their knowledge such as the creation of a calendar, math and large empires. These Latin American civilizations learned to plant corn and beans, they also domesticated llamas, short ear dogs, alpaca, guinea pigs, and turkeys which are endemic. They used these domesticated animals as a food source, wool, protection, and a labour force. The Incas, Aztecs and the Mayans were large powerful civilizations that had conquered large parts of South America through war. If these civilizations were so powerful within their nations then why were the Spanish conquistadors able to destroy these empires and killed numerous of these people. The answer lies within the title of the movie, germs. The Spanish brought over countless of infections which they were immune to but the South Americans had no protection against. The Spanish also slaughtered many of the warriors with their steel swords and their guns were as the South Americans only had stone spears that were no match. When the Spanish came to colonize Latin America, they brought over many animals such as horses, pigs, sheep, cattle and
The three largest known civilizations within Latin America were the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. These empires were known for their knowledge such as the creation of a calendar, math and large empires. These Latin American civilizations learned to plant corn and beans, they also domesticated llamas, short ear dogs, alpaca, guinea pigs, and turkeys which are endemic. They used these domesticated animals as a food source, wool, protection, and a labour force. The Incas, Aztecs and the Mayans were large powerful civilizations that had conquered large parts of South America through war. If these civilizations were so powerful within their nations then why were the Spanish conquistadors able to destroy these empires and killed numerous of these people. The answer lies within the title of the movie, germs. The Spanish brought over countless of infections which they were immune to but the South Americans had no protection against. The Spanish also slaughtered many of the warriors with their steel swords and their guns were as the South Americans only had stone spears that were no match. When the Spanish came to colonize Latin America, they brought over many animals such as horses, pigs, sheep, cattle and