Guns Germs And Steel Summary

In the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond attempts to describe the history of mankind for the past 13,000 years. In chapter 3, of this book, Diamond discusses the conquest of the New World by the Spanish. He goes into specific details of how Pizarro captures Atahuallpa, holds him hostage for 8 months and then, after receiving the ransom, from the Incas, had him executed. One of the questions that Diamond addresses is why the Spanish were successful in conquering the Incas, instead of the Incas going to Europe and conquering Spain. As we read in this chapter, one of the reasons the Spanish were successful was due to the superior weapons of the Spanish. The Spanish had steel swords, shields, and rode horses. The Incas were no