Honors: Guns‚ Germs and Steel Name: Title of Text: Chapter 2: “A Natural Experiment of History” pp. 53-66 Prediction/Background Knowledge: Vocabulary Words: Focus Question(s): 1. Identify and evaluate the environmental‚ political‚ social and economic factors and outcomes of the clash between the Moriori and Maoiri peoples. Concrete Detail/CD (Text‚ page #) (Specific quotes that address FQ) Commentary (CM) (Explain how your CD answers the FQ. Provide context.)
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GUNS‚ GERMS‚ AND STEEL ESSAY Jared Diamond’s novel‚ Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is a speculation about how and why the Europeans ended up being the main power in earlier times and conquered so much of the world. Diamond wonders how the Europeans could have so much power and advanced technology while the rest of the world was still hunting and gathering. Although Diamond is not the first to speculate on this complicated subject‚ his answer is revolutionary. People have attributed Europe’s overwhelming
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professor. This sparked Jared Diamond to answer this question by turning back the clocks of time to an era where everyone lived the same. This is the beginnings of Diamond’s ground breaking and heartwarming three- part documentary called “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel.” This documentary goes deep into history and answers the main question of‚ “How did our worlds become so different?” Jared Diamond takes on the challenge most philosophers wouldn’t dare try of dividing the haves and have-nots of
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel; Diseases Disease influenced a lot of the world’s history‚ how these disease reached human‚ and how over a period of time we became mutated to these diseases. It affected a lot of wars‚ and settlements‚ such as when the new world was discovered. Most of the germs from these diseases came from domesticated animals‚ and people from the Old world. Diseases have even been the cause of wars. Around 1526 the Atahuallpa had won battles in a civil war that had left the
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AP World History Summer Reading “Guns‚ Germs and Steel” A.) In the Prologue of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ a local politician name Yali asks Jared Diamond a question‚ the answer to it is explain throughout the rest of the book. His question‚ “‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?’” By this‚ Yali wants to know why the advancements in some areas are greater than in others‚ why there are
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Diamond wrote this book because he wanted to explore and acquire knowledge about a question that have puzzled people for thousands of years living them to give different opinion about what might be the possible answer to the question. Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel is a historical analysis about anthropology & archaeology that opens with a prologue in which the author presents a question from a New Guinean politician and friend named Yali: why were Europeans able to conquer so many other societies around
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Atahualpa. In a vain attempt to save Atahualpa‚ his subjects assembled one of the largest ransoms in history‚ an estimated $30 million worth of gold and silver. 7. Pizzarro completely surprised and overwhelmed Atahualpa’s empire; Pizzarro had guns germs and steel where the Incas didn’t. Pizzarro also had horses that terrified the Incas having never seen it. Pizzarro also had a written language and the Incas did not. 8. Availability of more consumable calories means more people equals strength of
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Book Review The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book‚ he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers‚ he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond attempts to answer the question‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had so little cargo of our own?” This question was asked by Yali‚ a New Guinean politician talking to Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond answers this question by analyzing the development of civilization across the globe‚ from the deserts of Africa to the woodlands of North America. Each of these civilizations progressed
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Guns Germs and Steel Essay review Paper written by: Cydney Dickens Period 6 Jared Diamond was presented with a very interesting question by a man named Yali‚ he was asked‚ “why white men have so much cargo and we new Guineans have so little?” his main answer to question is very simple. He said “it is not based on their race‚ however it is based on their geographic location” this is basically stating‚ if they were closer to a different area things would have turned out differently
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