. AP WORLD HISTORY STUDY GUIDE: Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Buy and read the assigned chapters ofthe book. o Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback) o Author: Jared Diamond‚ Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (April 1999) o o . . ISBN:03933L7552 . . o Bulleted answers to these questions are due the first day of school‚ worth 50 points Answers MUST BE HANDWRITTEN! Study guides thatwere copied will receive a ZERO! The following strategy is suggested for completing
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things attributed to the succession of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea where we black people had little cargo of our own?" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how
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success or struggles of a civilization. Some of the factors are population‚ economics‚ resources‚ and many others. In the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ the civilization of Eurasia is examined in detail in order to reveal why Eurasia was ultimately successful. Diamond argues that Eurasia was successful because of their agriculture‚ geography‚ and their immunity to germs‚ which I agree with. Diamond talks about how agriculture played a role in the success of Eurasia. Diamond says that Eurasia
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Many of the domestic plants that are around today all started out as wild‚ some even started out poisonous. Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond chapter seven is about how through natural and artificial selection the plants‚ that people today know and love‚ came to be. Natural selection is the process that organisms better suited for certain environments survive and produce more offspring’s. Whereas artificial selection is where organisms with desired traits cross-pollinate
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The Overall Theme of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond The overall theme of Diamond’s novel has to do with the progression of the human race in different areas of the world. He said that the development of different people was not based off of genetic composition but their location on the earth. Diamond gives many examples to back up his claim. Diamond uses many different examples from different time periods and different areas of the world. He starts at around 11‚000 BCE with the earliest
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ARVIND MILLS Environmental Factors POLITICAL LEVEL – Inability to anticipate & manage risk NAFTA – ▪ Poor prediction (Thought NAFTA impact would be 10 years; but impacted in less than a year) ▪ Mexico emerged as a new garment cluster (Competition) ▪ 17% Duty for outside of NAFTA made Arvind non‐competitive Lack of vision ▪ Got carried away by its success‚ hype by media‚ stock market and industry FUNCTIONAL LEVEL Blind expansion /Careless /lavish spend p
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“Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚” by Jared Diamond is without a doubt a very interesting read that gives you a different perspective about history. The main thesis of the book involves Diamond trying to answer Yali’s 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?” Diamond is able to answer Yali’s question with the title of the book guns‚ germs‚ and steel. He believed that these three factors are the main reasons
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Chapter 15 FRQ Thesis Statements 1. In shaping the course of the Thirty Years’ War‚ the relative importance was influenced both by religious rivalries such as the threats proposed between Calvinism and Catholicism‚ and dynastic ambitions like the desire to confront the threats of the growing Hapsburg power and the vision to expand one’s own power within the empire. a. Threat to Calvinism: (1) The Peace of Augsburg excluded Calvinism= sparked tension (2) When Ferdinand succeed the throne he
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Chapter 8 |1. |Explain the way Islam began to fragment along three separate paths. What were these paths‚ and how were their beliefs different?| |2. |Explain how Islam was able to spread from Spain to India in a relatively short amount of time‚ dominating a wide range of | | |territories and societies. | |3. |Describe the evolution of Islamic civilization
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Chapter 15 1. RIZAL AS HISTORIAN Rizal’s research studies in the British Museum (London) and in Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris) enriched his historical knowledge. His annotations to Morga’s book showed his familiarity with historiography. He told Isabelo de los Reyes‚ “A historian ought to be rigorously imparted…I never assert anything on my own authority. I cite texts and when I do‚ I have them before me.” 2. RIZAL AS HISTORIANFirst Voyage Around the World (Italian) Antonio PigafettaHistorical
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