Dr. Jared Diamond's Response To Papua New Guinea

1. Explain the role horses and steel played in Pizarro's conquest of the Incan Empire.

Spanish weaponry consisted of swords, pikes, horses and early guns. The Spanish Conquistadors introduced a type of warfare never seen in the Americas, cavalry warfare. The soldiers on horseback were almost as intimating as the soldiers who used guns. The Aztecs thought horses were gods, which concerned the Aztec because they were sitting on top of these “gods”. [2] The Spanish also had the advantage of having steel armor, which protected them from the natives’ projectiles, and weakened hits against the Aztec obsidian swords.[3] Their wounds were limited to the limbs, of unarmed regions like their face and neck. Which lessened their risk of death, while the opposing natives were left vulnerable. The Spanish fired shots from their harquebus, an early musket, which stunned the natives and further intimidated them.

When the people from Afro-Eurasia came they brought many diseases and illnesses to the New World. “Diseases brought from Old World; Smallpox, Malaria, Measles, Typhoid, and Whooping Cough (Last name, Document G.)” Most of these diseases had never been seen

People were living in a time with very little medicine to help fight disease that was responsible for the death of many people. Before people from around the world began settling in the New World, disease and sickness was under control. The Native Americans were immune to common sickness that was commonly present since they were born. Being immune to a sickness means your body is already resistant to the infection and has the proper needs to fight the infection. When settlers came from Europe, they were carriers of different diseases and that they are immune to. When they came in contact with the Native Americans, they spread diseases like smallpox, measles, chicken pox, malaria, yellow fever, and influenza. These are strong diseases that the Native Americans were not immune to. Ninety five percent of the Native Americans in North America were killed by these diseases brought over from the Old

The Spanish conquistadors were not your typical farmers or craftsmen – they were soldiers, travelers, and mercenaries in search of wealth. In their quests for fortune and land, they invaded and enslaved native communities and looted gold, silver, and other treasures that were up for grabs. The two prosperous conquests were those of the Aztec empire in Mexico by Hernan Cortes and the Inca empire in Peru by Francisco Pizarro. They both had unpretentious forces that were far outnumbered by the warriors of the empires they conquered. A vital element of their success was their progressed weaponry and durable armor. Spanish conquistadors

How the conquest of the Spaniards led to an impact on one of the world’s largest empires.

Smallpox was a disease that was brought by the Europeans to America's. The Europeans and the Afro Eurasian countries were already exposed to many diseases and build immunities over the years. The Americans, however, were isolated from the rest of the world so they never build this immunity. So we the European crossed the ocean and landed in the Americas, intentional or not, they were able to pass on the disease to natives just by touch. The natives were left vulnerable and died off in large numbers. According to pbs.org smallpox killed around an estimated 90% of Native Americans. The death of some many natives left the tribe unprotected, disorganized and without a leader. The Europeans, on the other, had thought that this event was the divine power of God and that it was his way of showing them that he was on their side. The decrease of native might have given the European an upper hand in conquering their land but now there was nobody to work the land for free. The next best thing of them was African slavery. In summary, smallpox killed many native American empires like the Inca and the Aztec and left their people without a leader and protection and at the mercy of European conquistadors. It also was a large contributor to African

This chapter focuses on the meeting of the two societies and discusses the causes of one having a greater dominance over the other. The Europeans led to dominance and beat with factors such as horses, guns, steel weapons, ships, diseases, and politics. Referring to the title, these guns, germs, and steels that the Europeans possessed helped them overcome and defeat the Incas, however it is because of the ultimate factors they had. The Europeans unlike the Incas had a lot of domesticated plants and animals, and it could be considered an agricultural revolution. They also lived in a better area, which helped them develop the proximate factors. Raising plants and animals were the \ most important factors of the civilizational differences of the past and present. Food production, industries, and cities arose. Food production had led to the industrialization and the “cargoes”

The Aztecs and Inca people had many issues and concerns when they came in contact with the European people. In this essay I will be comparing the issues, and concerns of Aztec and Inca cultures to their contacts with the Europeans. Some of the issues that I will be discussing are from the time period that covered roughly the 1400’s to roughly around the 1500’s. The Aztecs were American Indian people who ruled a mighty empire in Mexico from the 1400’s to 1500’s. In the late fourteenth century, the Inkas were a very small community in the area of Cuzco, a city located at an altitude of 10,000 feet in the mountains of Southern Peru (Pg. 181, Dukier). The lives of the people in these two cultures were forever

Geography is the “mother of sciences”. (Wickramaratne, 2015) Geography studies the physical and cultural characteristics of different places and how they affect one another. Geography is considered a social and physical science and is taught in classrooms throughout the United States. Geography is taught in hope that someone can “see the meaning in the arrangement of things on Earth’s surface and be able to see relations between people, places, and environments, who uses geographic skills, and who applies spatial and ecological perspectives to life situations.”

There are mutual effects between European colonizers and Africans. On one hand, European colonizers suffered from tropical diseases originated from Africa. On the other hand, however, Europeans affected Africa in the area of health and wellness in a more rapid and profound way. Not only did they contribute much

Has it ever occurred to you that it’s slightly abnormal that all countries that exist today are growing, developing, and expanding at different rates and standards? Some until recently, were still living as if we were in the stone age? An excellent example for this is the Papua New Guineans. Throughout time at least each nation has advanced compared to what it was like thousands of years ago. The origin of maintaining an undeveloped lifestyle long left behind by the rest of their world all come down to their isolation from other cultures, specificities of their environment, and their lack of large settlements which comes down to geographic luck, and how you use it as an advantage.

First of all, geography can refer to a number of things. In this report however, it refers to “the study of space and place, and of movements between places”

Peru, a small country located on the western coast of South America that borders the South Pacific Ocean, was the center of many ancient civilizations, most notably the Incas who 's empire and wealth was captured by Spanish in the early 1500 's during the Spanish exploration of South America. After the Spanish took control of the country, they began to kill most of the Inca rulers. However, the biggest killer that the Spanish brought to the Incas was not any type of weapon; it was the many diseases and illnesses that the Incas were not immune to. Many Incas moved into the mountains located in Peru but by 1572, the Spanish had killed the last Inca ruler Tupac Amaru along with his family. In 1569, Spanish colonial administrator Francisco de Toledo arrived in the country and instilled a very harsh system of government. The methods that he instilled consisted of a government with Spanish officials ruling through Native Americans who dealt directly with the local

Slavery in the Atlantic World has brought Africans to the Americas to work brutal long days with little to no food. These Africans were taken away from their families and forced into slavery. Now these Africans and Native Americans had started to die because of all of these diseases over in the Americas that they could not fight off.