guns germs and steel
The book Guns, Germs, and Steel is an interesting book. It talks about the different societies and their interaction with each other and the environment. One pattern is that all the societies evolved near water. Most of the groups had feuds with each other. Like in 1835 the societies of the Chatha....
Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs and Steel
Geography played a great role in determining which societies would become the most powerful and which wouldnt. Geography is destiny. Those early humans who settled in geographically advantageous areas produced agricultural surpluses that permitted their societies
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Yalis question is the focus of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea but we black people had little cargo of our own? he asked. The question is one that has been pondered by many scientists and historians and in Guns Diam....
Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates, of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates, of Human Societies (1999) by Jared Diamond Jared Diamond is a physiologist who wrote this book based on the question: Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? Diamo....
the life of mayflower
The prologue to the book opens with an account of Diamond's conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician. The conversation turned to the obvious differences in power and technology between Yali's people and the Europeans who dominated the land for 200 years, differences that neither of them cons....