How Does Steel Affect The Development Of Civilization
Exposure to deadly diseases affects the development of civilization by either giving it an immunity or kill off the majority of the population. Civilizations with an immunity will be able to thrive, take resources, and other civilizations that happen to fall to the diseases. In small amounts, exposure to deadly diseases can in a way help a civilization. It helps because it enables people to develop an “immunity” to the specific disease. For example, when you go to the doctor, you get shots. In the shots, contains a small dose of the virus. When small doses are entered in your body it “trains” your immune system to understand how to fight the virus off in case you accidently catch it. The Spanish obtained this and used it as a weapon without
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realizing it. They developed this immunity because of the animals that they owned such as pigs, horses, and cows. The animals practically lived in the owner's bedroom causing the owner to have close contact with the diseased animals which improved their immune system. Once the Spanish arrived to what today is known as South America, they brought the disease with them. The Incas immune system didn’t respond well to this due to the single animal they had, the llama. Llamas are different from the animals from Europe because they didn’t contain the diseases as the animals in Europe did. Because of smallpox the Spanish was able to take control of the Incas and collect a large amount of goods. Having this pre exposure to smallpox became an advantage for the Spanish. The Incas didn’t have the same type of exposure to the virus which ended in a result of decimation The development of steel affects the development of a country because, it not only increases their chance to gain more, it sets their civilization “ahead of the game” when it comes to the most developed civilization.
Steel is a very effective tool for a civilization because it could help your civilization conquer another. The Europeans had steel while the Inca didn’t because the Inca didn’t have all the necessary components to make it. The requirements to make steel are, iron, a 1,000 degree heated fire, specialists, and most importantly time. The Inca weren’t geographically blessed to have iron in their grounds, making them incapable to make steel. On the other hand, the Europeans had all the ingredients for steel. From there they invented steel weapons such as the Rapier, a dueling weapon. Another quite helpful invention that is not a weapon, it’s called the printing press. The printing press is a steel made item that punched letters of ink into a paper, this allowed the Europeans to have a written language. Having a written language benefits the Europeans by no longer letting them rely on the word of others but to be able to possess a document or book with the information they were seeking. The absence of steel for the Inca forced them to rely on others word, which is unreliable and slow to spread. Steel evolved European civilization, allowing them to conquer places such as the
Inca.
realizing it. They developed this immunity because of the animals that they owned such as pigs, horses, and cows. The animals practically lived in the owner's bedroom causing the owner to have close contact with the diseased animals which improved their immune system. Once the Spanish arrived to what today is known as South America, they brought the disease with them. The Incas immune system didn’t respond well to this due to the single animal they had, the llama. Llamas are different from the animals from Europe because they didn’t contain the diseases as the animals in Europe did. Because of smallpox the Spanish was able to take control of the Incas and collect a large amount of goods. Having this pre exposure to smallpox became an advantage for the Spanish. The Incas didn’t have the same type of exposure to the virus which ended in a result of decimation The development of steel affects the development of a country because, it not only increases their chance to gain more, it sets their civilization “ahead of the game” when it comes to the most developed civilization.
Steel is a very effective tool for a civilization because it could help your civilization conquer another. The Europeans had steel while the Inca didn’t because the Inca didn’t have all the necessary components to make it. The requirements to make steel are, iron, a 1,000 degree heated fire, specialists, and most importantly time. The Inca weren’t geographically blessed to have iron in their grounds, making them incapable to make steel. On the other hand, the Europeans had all the ingredients for steel. From there they invented steel weapons such as the Rapier, a dueling weapon. Another quite helpful invention that is not a weapon, it’s called the printing press. The printing press is a steel made item that punched letters of ink into a paper, this allowed the Europeans to have a written language. Having a written language benefits the Europeans by no longer letting them rely on the word of others but to be able to possess a document or book with the information they were seeking. The absence of steel for the Inca forced them to rely on others word, which is unreliable and slow to spread. Steel evolved European civilization, allowing them to conquer places such as the
Inca.