Gus germs and steel Essay -- English Literature

Gus germs and steel1. Yali asks baseball diamond, Why is it that you white people developed spmuch cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people hadlittle cargo of our own.2. Jared Diamonds thesis seems to be that external factors such asgeography can affect the fate of human societies. In other words, whatseparates the winners from the losers is geography.Chapter 11. The colossal Leap Forward is when human fib developed about50,000 geezerhood ago.2. The giant 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 wereeither killed despatch by Clovis hunters or died due to drought.4. All of the giant animals residing in Africa were able to survivebecause there were no extreme weather conditions and there were not well as many deadly hunters in Afr ica as there were in America.Chapter 31. Pizzaros capture of Atahuallpa offers a broad window onto modernhistory because it has happened many times since then.2. Technology, or the guns and the steel, was used 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 superlative empires collided in a huge fight.Chapter 41. Societies with successful food production would grow because therewas enough food for everyone. The greatest food producers became the orb conquerors because they were a big society with big ideas fortechnology.2. The development of diseas... ...teel, I would have to say that the mostdecisive factor would be the germs. A good example is variola thevirus alone killed more people than either guns or steel.4. The East woolly-headed its enormous lead to the West (Europe) becauseEurope developed a merchandiser system, capitalism, and patent protec tionfor invertors. Europe also did not have a dictatorship like China, soinventors in Europe were worry free.5. China lost its technological lead to Europe because they were adictatorship and had high taxations.6. Chinas connectedness became a disadvantage for them because theirfertile crescent 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 hold importantlessons for the modern world including.