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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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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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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: “Up to the Starting Line” 1. When did the history of humans begin? Around 50‚000 years ago. “Human history at last took off around 50‚000 years ago...” (Page 39) 2. Humans developed on what continent? Humans developed in Africa. “…‚ indicates that the earliest stages of human evolution were also played out in Africa.” (Page 36) 3. The Giant Leap forward occurred when? Around the time human history started‚ 50‚000 years ago. “Human History at last took off
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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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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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Societies in the World Quiz 1 Started on Completed on Time taken Grade What makes the little-known 1835 clash between the Maori and Moriori peoples a particularly interesting conflict for Diamond? Marks: 4 1 Answer: The little-known 1835 clash between the Maori and Moriori peoples was particularly interesting for Diamond because the Maori-Moriori peoples are both from common ancestors originating less than a millennium earlier. Diamond believed that if we could understand the
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Ninan Cuyochi‚ who was the beneficiary to the position of royalty leaving no reasonable successor‚ both kicked the bucket of smallpox. Finally‚ the triumph of Peru which began in 1532 when a gathering drove by Francisco Pizarro landed in the city of Cajamarca‚ equipped with 110 men and a ranger of 67. These factors prompted the fall of Inca (Jarus‚ The Incas: History of Andean Empire‚ 2013) (Mckay‚ et
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