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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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    The article‚ GunsGerms and Steel‚ written by Jared Diamond‚ is an argument about how and why things happened differently in history in different continents. It’s about looking deeper into why things happened the way they did. Why did western Eurasian societies become more powerful? What enabled these parts of the world to develop more quickly and in turn be able to conquer less developed societies around the world? The important message to grasp from this article is not about how certain continents

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    Guns Germs and Steele Short Bio: Jared Diamond was born and grew up in Boston Massachusetts. He was born September 10‚ 1937. His father was a pediatrician that taught medical students. His father is best known for his exploration on blood diseases of children. Diamond’s mother was a pianist‚ teacher‚ and linguist. He got his love for science from his father‚ from his mother Diamond learned to love reading and writing. Diamond attended a small middle school/high school for 6 years. He expected to

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    B. In section one‚ chapter one‚ Diamond explains that the ancestors broke off from Africa as a separate lineage from animals about 7 million years ago. Human ancestors began walking upright around 4 million years ago‚ and they moved to Eurasia around 1 or 2 million years ago. Sometime between 100‚000 and 50‚000 years ago‚ not long after human fossils began to resemble modern homo sapiens‚ the human race had an explosion of new technological and artistic innovations that far surpassed anything previously

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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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    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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    The author of GunsGerms‚ 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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    “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 GunsGerms 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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    GunsGerms 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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