Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel; Diseases Disease influenced a lot of the world’s history‚ how these disease reached human‚ and how over a period of time we became mutated to these diseases. It affected a lot of wars‚ and settlements‚ such as when the new world was discovered. Most of the germs from these diseases came from domesticated animals‚ and people from the Old world. Diseases have even been the cause of wars. Around 1526 the Atahuallpa had won battles in a civil war that had left the
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vain attempt to save Atahualpa‚ his subjects assembled one of the largest ransoms in history‚ an estimated $30 million worth of gold and silver. 7. Pizzarro completely surprised and overwhelmed Atahualpa’s empire; Pizzarro had guns germs and steel where the Incas didn’t. Pizzarro also had horses that terrified the Incas having never seen it. Pizzarro also had a written language and the Incas did not. 8. Availability of more consumable calories means more people equals strength of numbers
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Yali’s Question * Yali’s Question: Why is it that white people developed more cargo than us black people? * New Guinea-Stone Age until 200 years ago. * 11‚000 B.C.-all humans are hunter gatherers. * New Guineans proven more intellectually superior than advanced races. * Climates effect-cold enhances creativity?-no-Mayans‚ pottery‚ art‚ science‚ flourished in tropics. * River Valleys foster centralized rule?-no‚ centralized rule has come before agricultural
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Chapter 1 Even though Africa had a massive time advantage America had a much greater environmental diversity‚ so the Native American’s would have a advantage over thee Africans. Because of all the islands around Australia and New Guinea the colonist would travel to a new island and would adapt and populate the island. Because of this it brought an unprecedented golden age of successful human population explosions. Because of the population explosions‚ Australia would have had a massive head start
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INSTITUTE OF LAW‚ NIRMA UNIVERSITY Project on Analysis on the developmental scenario of “IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY” in India. Submitted by: PATHMAJA RAGHUNATHAN (10BBL044) Subject: Legal Economics Programme: B.com L.L.B. (Hons.) Semester: 3rd Year: September‚ 2011 Submitted To: Prof. Arun Prasad (Course Coordinator) TABLE OF CONTENTS S.NO. CONTENT PAGE NO. 1. DECLARATION 04 2. CERTIFICATE 05 3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 06 4. CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1
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faced by the steel industry Introduction 3 Challenges faced by the steel industry 3 Conclusion 13 Work cited During the 1950s‚the European steel market‚ steel production and import unrelentingly augmented. This created surplus provisions on the promotion of the Six. Due to this‚ there was deterioration of the market together with its selling value. This drop continued as a result of antagonism from inexpensive introductions from eastern nations. Therefore‚ the European steel industry was
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Strategic Management Credit Accumulation & Transfer Scheme (CATS) – Undergraduate – Degree in Business & Management Studies “Position Analysis of Tata Steel” ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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Table of Contents Issue #1 Percentage use of Production Capacity Nucor steel has the largest production capacity capability in North America. However‚ they have some deficiencies in this area in that in 2010 they utilized just 70 percent of capacity‚ though it increased in 2011 it was still just 74 percent. Gaining greater production efficiency will reduce costs and in turn increase the profitability of the company. Issue #2 Rising Scrap Metal Prices Nucor maintains its competitive
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GROWTH OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY WHY THE INDUSTRY? The reason for focusing on this industry is that‚ Steel industry has become a major production and consumption market‚ with tremendous potential for growth after the reduction of the export tariffs from 15% to 5%. There has been a consistent rise in the prices and the demand expectations are growing rapidly for the coming years due to planned investment in infrastructure development‚ increased urbanization and growth in key steel sectors i.e.
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Overview of the case‚ Strategic Management at Zhujiang Iron and Steel Company Zhujiang iron and steel company (ZISCO) is an important strategic business unit within Guangzhou iron and steel enterprises holding limited (GISE)‚ established in 1997 as a state owned organization. Before 2003‚ ZISCo pursued a product differentiation strategy with a focus on domestic niche markets because ZISCo was new in steel market and had no distribution channel. With this strategy ZISCo couldn’t achieve economies
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