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    such as The Ferile Crescent of SW Asia‚ China in 7500‚ Mesoamérica in 3500‚ ect. These were explained to prove of how food production was ran and turning into more domesticates that gave them to compete against other cultures and turned to gunsgerms and steel. Chapter 6: Diamond discusses why human agriculture was vital human societies. He explains how the decrease in hunting gathering made humans turn to more animal domestication‚ plant agriculture‚ ect. in around 8500 BC. This allowed easier

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    In the book ‘’GunsGerms and Steel’’ By Jared Diamond explores a brief history of the human world and how it has become what it is today. When Jared Diamond takes a visit to New Guinea‚ he is encountered by a local politician on the beach whose name is Yali‚ and as they walked and talked together‚ Yali asked a simple 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?’’ .That question made Jared go on the

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    GunsGerms and Steel somewhat explains how the Europeans were able to conquer Africa and the Americas‚ but also leaves out some very important information. This Information includes things like political decisions‚ alliances‚ human decisiveness‚ and some information that flaws his theory of “Geographic Luck” (Guns Germs and Steel) . Essentially‚ Diamond’s theory basically claims that Europeans conquered based solely on geographic luck‚ and leaves out all other information that also impacted the

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    I really liked the video and thought it was real interesting. I do pretty much agree to what I have heard so far. I agree that all the great civilizations had in common that they all had advanced technology‚ a large population‚ and an organized work for. I think the same applies kind of to big companies: The all have advanced technology‚ have a lot of workers‚ and have an organized work force. I already knew about crop domestication‚ but I can‚ again‚ make a connection of the proses to big companies

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    GunsGerms and Steel: The Ultimate Sociological Thesis or Blind Determinism? If there is anything certain about the current state and history of our species‚ it is that there are and always have been vast discrepancies in terms of wealth and advancement between the various civilizations that inhabit our planet. The underlying causes of these discrepancies have long been a matter of discussion. Arguments range from racial superiority to the existence of societal institutions to geographical determinism

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel Study Guide Questions Yali’s Question to Jared Diamond was as follows: Why did the Europeans have superior technology‚ and thus conquer the New World‚ rather than the other way around? Many answers have been put to the query‚ but a couple stand out. A common answer to this question is that because the Europeans got the gunsgerms‚ and steel‚ they were superior. Diamond refutes this by asking about the ultimate cause: why did the Europeans get the gunsgerms‚ and steel‚ rather

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel Jared Diamond’s GunsGerms‚ and Steel answers the question about why human societies are so different from each other. He points out that although Africa seemed to have had a head start in developing their society‚ the continent of Eurasia had definite advantages. Eurasia’s advantages over many other continents included environmental factors as well as a location that had many more species of animals that could be domesticated‚ larger scale farming‚ and easier trade of goods

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    Inequality in the development of civilizations has long been a mystery. That is‚ until the book GunsGerms‚ and Steel came out in 1997. This book revealed how geography determined that Europe was fortunate in agriculture‚ domesticated animals‚ germs and Papua New Guinea and Inca were not. Climate is determined by the latitude and longitude of a location. The latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea causes it to have a hot tropical climate year-round and one of the only things they can grow is

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    Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals.  Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germssteel‚ and food-producing capability?  Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences.  He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and

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    In GunsGerms‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is the response to a question Diamond had been asked by a New Guinean politician‚ Yali‚ in 1972. The question was‚ “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people have little cargo of our own?” This refers to the inequality between many different civilizations‚ quite like how Europeans developed great objects and wealth that they used to dominate over other societies

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