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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
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the Incas still leaved in secret time. In 1532‚ Pizarro returned to Peru with small private army. At first the local people fed this stranger. The roads of Inca Empire stretched 3000 miles from Chile to Ecuador and it led to Inca himself town of Cajamarca. Our father Inca‚ they deceived him and put him to death. He with the heart of a puma‚ the cleverness of a fox and they killed him like a llama. Pizarro traveled south of the Inca royal road 1000 miles to the capital of Inca Empire “Cuzco”. On the
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Preface * Basis: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? * Predominant focus on histories of literate Eurasia (western Eurasia) and North African societies 3 disadvantages 1. More people today are interested in understanding societies besides that of Western Europe a. Other societies encompass most of the world’s population and vast majority of the world’s ethnic‚ cultural and linguistic groups b. Other societies are already or
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a head start because it is the continent where humans began to first develop. Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca Q: Write a paragraph explaining your views on the event of November 16‚ 1532. What strikes you the most? Why was Pizarro so successful? A: On the event of November 16‚ 1532 conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his army of only 168 men more than attacked the Inca town of Cajamarca‚ populating about 80‚000 people. They
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sites of food production. * Unequal germ exchange? * Food production increases-skilled craftsmen are able to create advanced technologies. * Food supports bureaucracies which support armies‚ exploration‚ and conquest. From Eden to Cajamarca Up to the Starting Line * Plant and animal domestication gives people an early advantage? * 7 million year history-humans split off from apes. * Primitive stone tools-2.5 mil yrs. ago. * 1/1.8 mil yrs. ago‚ Homo erectus left Africa
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the south of Panama. They travel to Peru in 1526 and then returned to get permission to claim the land for Spain. In 1531‚ their expedition which included Pizarro’s three half brothers sailed from Panama. The next fall Pizarro entered the city of Cajamarca and took the Inca leader Atahuapla hostage. Despite having paid a ransom to spare his life‚ Atahuapla was killed in 1533. Pizarro then conquered Cuzco‚ another important Inca city‚ and founded the city of Lima‚ now the capital of
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European or American is"‚ traits which he attributes to survival of the fittest. Proper analysis of the current standing of various human societies must trace developments beginning before the onset of historical record. Matyash 2 Part 1: From Eden to Cajamarca Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line: This chapter discusses the “great leap forward” or the extension of humankind beyond Africa. Did being in some location earlier give those peoples an advantage over later settlers? Africa had an enormous time
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Thesis statement: Yali posed an important question that involves the relationships of people from all times. The answer is intricate‚ but still unclear. However‚ the link between Pizarro’s easy defeat of the Incas is a clue further into the answer. Yali’s question is an age old inquiry. Yali is inquisitive as to why caucasian people developed so many goods/ cargo and brought them to New Guinea but black people had so little goods themselves. On the surface‚ the question appears simple‚ but is
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began with Christopher Columbus stumbling across America while searching for China. The search for Gold and spread of Christianity caused Europeans to colonize the New World‚ discovering many new lands‚ such as that of the Incas in Peru. We visit Cajamarca‚ where the King Atahualpa was held captive by Pizarro and forced to convert to Christianity. At Amsterdam’s tulip fields‚ we reflect on the first global stock market crash—Tulip-mania. In the 145 years from 1492 to 1637‚ European capitalism was born
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