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    themselves and not let anyone or anything take it away from them. As I said power is received by being on top and in charge‚ but it is also received through conquest. Conquest can make someone feel powerful and cause them to be in control. In GunsGerms and Steel Diamond says‚ “The Cherokee confederacy was thus formed not by conquest but by the amalgamation of previously jealous smaller entities‚ which merged only when threatened with destruction by powerful external forces”(Diamond 289-290). The Cherokee

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    Yali’s Question---Prologue: While many are opposed to answering Yali’s question‚ finding the answer is vital. If we found out how or why the American and European countries progressed to where they are now we could potentially rid the world of poverty. When many other peoples such as Australia‚ New Guinea‚ many Pacific Islands‚ most part of the America’s and small parts of South Africa lived as farming tribes‚ much of Europe‚ Asia‚ North Africa were industrializing. Industrialization‚ to introduce

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    In the book GunGerms‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ Diamond talks about this centralized political structure. An argument he makes is that Europeans developed a political structure due to their use of domesticated animals and agriculture‚ which led to innovations in literature

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    The book GunsGerms‚ 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 GunsGerms‚ 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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    and how the Spanish peoples gems led to the deaths of many south Americans 2. Yes‚ because many of the Incans and other natives living in south America and mexico were killed off by the Spanish peoples germs and diseases 3. Almost 95% of incans an south Americans were wiped out due to new germs‚ many other south Americans were killed off by the Spanish’s superior weaponry\ Chapter 4 1. Describes how food production came to be by farming and the domestication of animals 2. Yes‚ much of the food

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    Milo Fradianni GermsGuns and Steel WHAP Gavigan GunsGerms‚ and Steel The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond Prologue: Throughout the book; GunsGerms‚ and Steel‚ Jared Diamond answers a very controversial question; why is it that European people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but the natives of New Guinea had little cargo of their own? Societies prosper depending on the abundance of natural resources which are at their disposal

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    Chapter 16 Summary Most of the world’s largest countries are extremely multicultural. China is a great exception. The vast majority of Chinese people speak Mandarin or a similar language‚ and most Chinese families have considered themselves Chinese for millennia. Diamond theorizes that China was once as linguistically and culturally diverse as Russia or Brazil‚ but that China began its process of unification far earlier. To support this point‚ Diamond turns first to Chinese languages. Mandarin

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    . AP WORLD HISTORY STUDY GUIDE: GunsGerms‚ and Steel Buy and read the assigned chapters ofthe book. o GunsGerms‚ 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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    Many of the domestic plants that are around today all started out as wild‚ some even started out poisonous. GunsGerms‚ 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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