Gus germs and steel Essay -- English Literature

Gus germs and steel1. Yali asks Diamond, why is it that you white people developed spmuch cargo and brought it to New Guinea, exactly we black people hadlittle cargo of our own.2. Jared Diamonds thesis seems to be that external factors such asgeography can fix the fate of human societies. In new(prenominal) words, whatseparates the winners from the losers is geography.Chapter 11. The Great bouncing Forward is when human history developed about50,000 geezerhood ago.2. The gargantuan moas in New Zealand and the giant lemurs in Madagascarwere exterminated by humans.3. 15,000 years ago the American West looked like Africas SerengetiPlains. It was filled with elephants, giraffes, zebras, and otherAfrican animals. All of these animals living in the American West were both killed off by Clovis hunters or died due to drought.4. All of the giant animals residing in Africa were able to survivebecause thither were no extreme weather conditions and there were notnearly as many deadly hunt ers in Africa as there were in America.Chapter 31. Pizzaros capture of Atahuallpa offers a resistant window onto modernhistory because it has happened many times since then.2. Technology, or the guns and the steel, was employ in exterminatingthe Incas. The germs that the Spaniards brought over on their horsesproduced small pox.3. Diamond refers to the battle at Cajamarca a collision because twoof the greatest empires collided in a large fight.Chapter 41. Societies with successful food production would grow because therewas lavish food for everyone. The greatest food producers became theworld conquerors because they were a big baseball club with big ideas fortechnology.2. The development of diseas... ...teel, I would have to say that the mostcritical factor would be the germs. A good example is Smallpox thecomputer virus alone killed more people than either guns or steel.4. The East confused its enormous lead to the West (Europe) becauseEurope developed a merchant system, capi talism, and patent protectionfor invertors. Europe to a fault did not have a dictatorship like chinaware, soinventors in Europe were worry free.5. China lost its technological lead to Europe because they were adictatorship and had juicy taxations.6. Chinas connectedness became a disadvantage for them because theirfertile lunate had no other geographical advantages other thandomesticating wild plants and animals. China also had an absolutedespot that was controlling the country.7. The histories of the Fertile Crescent and China appropriate importantlessons for the modern world including.