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    Book Review Katrina Yurkiw GunsGerms‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond W. W. Norton and Company April 1st‚ 1999 480 Pages ISBN: 0393317552 GunsGerms‚ and Steel is a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. Diamond’s purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Diamond’s aim is to answer Yali’s question: Why is that white people

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel Episode Three: Into the Tropics This episode was actually rather interesting. In general‚ it basically discussed how gunsgerms‚ and steel have affected and influenced the shaping of African societies as it is today. Diamond’s main quest is to answer the question: why did the world become so unequal? In the mid-1600s the Europeans first arrive at the southernmost tip of South Africa. The southernmost tip of Africa and Europe are almost identical in latitude‚ with

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    [pic] Guns Germs and Steel Humans have lived on this planet for thousands of years. Over the time‚ they learned‚ developed‚ acquired knowledge‚ and civilized in the process. Yet‚ this learning can’t be construed to be complete‚ leaving a lot to be learned. Along the way‚ human race has evolved by generating vast amounts of food‚ domestication of plant and animals‚ along with battles and illnesses. The primitive human who survived on hunting has reformed into modern human as we

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel Essay GunsGerms‚ and Steel is an amazing book. When I first looked at it I told myself I would never be able to read it because it was so big‚ but I knew I had to. By the title I thought it was going to be about the Civil War. When I began reading Yali’s question I realized that it was about early civilizations and their advancements. When I started reading the book it was very boring and I didn’t know how I was going to finish it. As I got to around page 75 I began to

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    I first read Jared Diamond’s GunsGerms‚ and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating‚ but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea‚ as opposed to‚ say‚ an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes"

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel Instructor: Judith L. Tucker‚ M.S Class: Crim 174 In this video‚ Gunsgerms‚ and steel are a fascinating perspective taken by Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA‚ Jared Diamond. His purpose was to explain why Eurasian civilizations have had such immense success conquering people and land other than their own. Why Europeans were the ones to conquer the world? As Diamond states that questions asked based on gunsgerms‚ and steel are the biggest‚ most fascinating

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    Jared Diamond’s GunsGerms‚ and Steel Why do some nations have so much material wealth while so many others have so little? This was the question Jared Diamond posed in his book GunsGerms‚ and Steel. After identifying a point in time when all societies were roughly equal (over 13‚000 years ago)‚ Diamond identified the key variables that allowed some societies to develop highly complex‚ material-rich societies‚ while others developed at much slower rates. GunsGerms‚ and Steel uncovers how

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    Chapter nine of Jared Diamond’s GunsGerms‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies describes how many of the animals domesticated had certain qualities that made it possible for them to be domesticated. The chapter also goes into why Eurasia became more advanced than the rest of the world. Diamond explains that all of this is possible based on the Anna Karenina principle. The Anna Karenina principle is “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This means

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    In the story GunsGerms and Steel by Jared Diamond pages 17-21 Jared is trying to understand why humans are developed differently‚ he is also trying to determine why only certain communities of people has became powerful. The author also goes on to tell us readers about the many different inequalities between civilizations in the modern world. Jared met a man name Yali‚ Yali was a politician. During the reading Yali was trying to come up with solutions to questions that he was asked‚ concerning

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    GunsGerms‚ and Steel is a short documentary in which Jared Diamond tries to answer a question asked by a man named Yali. The question Yali asked is; “Why you white man have so much cargo‚ and we New Guineans have so little?” Yali was asking why the people of New Guinea have so few technologies and goods in general. Diamond goes on to answer the question‚ stating that the reason the people of New Guinea have so little is because of New Guinea’s geography. I completely agree with Diamond’s answer

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