Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Video Questions/ Answers Episode 1 Name: Cindy Liu Per______ Jared Diamond has a theory about what causes huge discrepancies among different countries‚ and he says it boils down to geographic luck. What was great about the “Fertile Crescent”? The big four livestock animals; cows‚ pigs‚ sheep‚ and goats‚ were native to the Middle East. Also‚ due to its fertile land‚ the Fertile Crescent housed the best crops in the world. The great crops and animals it had benefited the civilizations
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies‚ by Jared Diamond‚ attempts to explain why history progressed differently for people from various geographical regions. Diamond introduces his book by pointing out that history followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among people themselves. Through his convincing explanation for how civilizations were created and evolved throughout the course of history
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“Analysis of Pakistan steel mill” Subject: Analysis of Pakistani Industries Class ID: 10127 Prepared By 1. Suraj Oad (4344) 2. Zeeshan Khan (4503) 3. M.Talha Atta-us-samad (4502) 4. Sumair hussain (4439) Submitted To: Sir Riaz Ahmed Table of Contents Introduction: 4 Steel 4 Significance of Steel Industry in Economic Growth 4 Steel Recycling 4 Production Process 6 Basic Steelmaking Process: 6 Various Steel melting processes:
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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India’s Steel Industry is more than a century old. Before the economic reforms of the early 1990s the Indian steel industry was a predominantly regulated one with the public sector dominating the industry. Tata Steel was the only major private sector company involved the production of steel in India. SAIL and Tata Steel have traditionally been the major steel producers of India. In 1992‚ the liberalization of the India economy led to the opening up of various industries including the steel industry
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Press clippings Indian steel industry plays a significant role in the country’s economic growth. The major contribution directs the attention that steel is having a stronghold in the traditional sectors‚ such as infrastructure & constructions‚ automobile‚ transportation‚ industrial applications etc. Moreover‚ steel variant stainless steel is finding innovative applications due to its corrosion resistive property. India is the fifth largest steel producer at the global front and struggling to become
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The Complete Steel Making Process Steel Plant 1. The Scrap to Steel Billet Process How we make our steel is a real kiwi recycling success story. The following outline is to help you to understand the scrap to steel making part of our business. All our scrap is sourced locally and is sorted and shredded on our behalf by Sims Pacific Metals – conveniently located next door to us‚ their biggest customer. The scrap is placed in piles in our yard‚ depending on its grade and size. The scrap is then
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Stainless Steel Comparison 302 AISI 302 is the most basic type of steel in the chromium-nickel group. It is an austenitic steel‚ which is used for chemical resistance and hardenable by cold work. It contains 18% chromium and 8% nickel. It has corrosion resistance to mild-atmospheric and fresh water‚ industrial atmospheric‚ marine atmospheric‚ mild chemical and oxidizing chemical environments. Type 302 is also highly resistant to gasoline. 303 AISI 303 is an austenitic steel in the chromium-nickel
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international steel companies. The number of rivals in America is declining due to higher labor costs than in foreign countries. There is a very fast pace of technology in the steel industry and it seems that the company‚ that obtains the newest technology‚ flourishes. This is due to the difficulty in lower costs of steel production. Better technology is one of the only ways to decrease costs because labor is pretty much at a set cost and all that is left is the cost of iron and making the steel. If a company
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According to dictionary.com‚ a steel pan is a percussion instrument originating in Trinidad‚ made out of an oil drum with one end beaten down and divided by grooves into sections to give different notes. Though steel pans (steel drums) were created on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the 1930s‚ the steel pan history can be traced back to the enslaved Africans who were brought to the island during the 1700s. They carried with them elements of their African culture including the playing of hand
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