Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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AP World History Summer Reading Assignment Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line Q: What was the Great Leap Forward? Describe the life of a Cro-Magnon person. What impact did the arrival of humans have on big animals? Provide an example. Which continent had a head start in 11‚000 BCE (Before Common Era)? A: the great leap forward was when human history first began to take off and the humans at that time began to become more like us modern humans today. The humans that
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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 germs‚ steel‚ 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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This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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section two‚ chapter four‚ Diamond argues that superior food production was the root cause beneath the ability of Eurasia’s people to develop the guns‚ germs‚ and steel that conquered the rest of the world. First‚ a population that can produce more food can also produce more
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The author of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is named Jared Diamond.The place of publication was New York City in the United States and published in the year of 1997. There are 498 pages in the book including Index‚ Credits‚ Acknowledgments‚ and Further Readings. There are 446 pages without them. This nonfiction book tries to explain why history advanced differently from people of different regions of the world. Diamond summarizes the book within this sentence‚ "History followed different courses for different
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Introduction Inequality is the subject of an ever-increasing amount of literature in the contemporary world‚ often focused on the disparity in wealth between nations. Jared Diamond‚ in his book Guns‚ Germs and Steel (GGS)‚ has forwarded an explanation of how such inequality arose. This essay will assess his analysis. The contention here is that while he has produced a persuasive account of the disparities of the world‚ his evaluation is inadequate. The importance of bio-geography in shaping the
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“Why is there so much inequality in the world: where some societies have so much‚ while others have so little?” The word inequality is defined as “difference in size‚ degree‚ circumstances‚ etc.; lack of equality” In the video Guns‚ Germs and Steel Diamond explains why the world has a massive amount of inequality and some reasons why are animals being used as food‚ milk‚ clothing & etc.‚ animals being used as beasts of burden and useful plants. To begin with‚ one of the reasons why there is so much
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Prologue 1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race‚ intelligence‚ and development of technology. Yali asks "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?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world. He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him
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Essential Question: How was the character(s) affected by the oppression of apartheid? In Chapter The Gun‚ of Out of Bounds‚ the main character Esi is affected by the oppression of apartheid. One good example is “...the the white authorities had declared Mapoteng part of a “homeland” to which black people had been sent in their thousand when their homes were not wanted close to the towns and cities of whites”(100). This means that Esi and his family lived in homelands. Blacks were forced by whites
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