Guns Germs And Steel Analysis

Yali’s question is “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?” In a broader sense, why did some things progress in some areas, but not in others?

What separates the haves from the have nots? How have guns, germs and steel shaped the history of the world?

The reason Pizarro succeeded was he had originally gained the trust of Atahualpa and then captured him and used his advanced weaponry to conquer the Incans

Their conversation started off with New Guinea’s political developments, then turned to how Europeans colonized New Guinea over time. It is said that whites had arrived in New Guinea and brought material goods ranging from weapons to soft drinks. These material goods were called cargo. Yali and Diamond knew that New Guineans are at least as smart as Europeans, so Yali asked, “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?”, and Diamond didn’t have an answer. Now, 25 years later, Jared Diamond wrote the book Guns, Germs, and Steel to answer this

Jared Diamond starts off his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel with stating his attempt to answer Yali’s question, “Why is it that you white people developed much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own.” Diamond elaborates and brings to simpler terms how Yali’s question relates to many questions on the origins of humans, but more specifically, how Eurasians, the white people mentioned by Yali, came to successfully dominate the rest of the world. In the prologue, Diamond mainly drives his point of the “effects of continental environments on history over the past 13,000 years” as to what he believes is the main root to why Eurasians came to dominate so successfully. Alongside of continental environments,

In the prologue of Jared Diamond’s book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond introduces readers to a question posed to him by Yali, a New Guinean politician. Yali inquired about the reason for different developmental rates of civilizations, and Diamond, who couldn’t explain at the time, began to search for the answer. Diamond links certain “power factors,” such as advanced weaponry, certain diseases, and metal tools, to the rate of advancement in civilizations. However, the causes for the creation and use of the “power factors” in some civilizations, but not others, remains an unsolved mystery. In the prologue, fittingly titled “Yali’s Question,” Diamond expresses his belief that throughout history, civilizations develop

Guns, Germs, and Steel starts off with an interesting conversation in the Prologue between the author, Jared Diamond, and a friend he made in New Guinea, a politician named Yali. Yali raises the question that why the rest of the world has so much of what he refers to as “cargo”, or in a broad sense technology, compared to his homeland of New Guinea which becomes the central focus for the entire book. The first chapter begins with the origins of humans and what Diamond calls the “Great Leap Forward” where the first tools, writings and paintings began to appear, as well as watercraft in aboriginal Australia and New Guinea. Then discussing the Ice Ages, leading up to the recent era and extinction of many large animals globally as humans began to spread out. Next Diamond uses the example of The Maoris and the Morioris in the Chatham Islands in 1835 and how one culture and civilization is able to overrun another due to geography, resources, and many other things and how that can lead

1.Jared Diamond states that the environment of a race determines whether or not it’s going to survive.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Diamond’s explains that Europeans progressed faster than Native Americans technologically. Since the beginnings of time Europeans advanced faster than Native Americans, but why? To begin with, the Eurasian land mass had more species of large animals to domesticate. In addition, Eurasia had more varieties of grains for large scale farming. Finally, Eurasia was more accessible for trade between civilizations.

Jared Diamond delves deep into humanity’s history in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel in attempt to answer a question imposed upon him by Yali, a New Guinean politician. Diamond weaves together many theories and historical examples, such as the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro’s defeat of the Incas, to explain why humans have developed at vastly differing rates. Yali asked a question that had stumped historians for decades and Diamond dissects and reassembles the phrasing often. In order to give his most complete answer, the author takes a look at both post 1500s inequalities, and differing rates of development throughout human times. The examination of Pizarro’s defeat of the large Inca force came first at the battlefield and continued

As Professor Diamond walked along the side of the beach he came upon a politician named Yali who was preparing his people in New Guinea for self-government. Yali and Professor Diamond talked each about their jobs and soon Yali started quizzing Professor Diamond and asking him many questions but only one had really made Diamond think leaving him without an answer. “ Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea , but we black people had little much cargo of our own,” asked politician Yali. After thinking about the question for a while, Diamond saw that the true question was much more broad and universal than Yali's initial question. He reworded the question as follows: "Why did wealth and power become distributed as they now are rather than in some other way?”

In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Out of Eden, it took place in Papua New Guinea. During this video it told us a little about Jared Diamond and his journey. Diamond was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a biologist and and a specialist in human physiology. Even though he was a professor, his real passion was to study birds. He has been studying bird since he was seven years old in the United States and has now been going to Papua New Guinea ever since he was twenty-six years old and he continues to take frequent trips to Papua New Guinea to learn more about the New Guineans life style. It also told us that Diamond is a leading expert on bird life on the island. With Diamond’s frequent visits he realized he is just as

Many historical events were created when the Europeans first came to the Americas. The Europeans brought many diseases, animals, new technologies, and their political structures in the Americas, or the New World. In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond states many arguments about these events. This paper will take you through different topics about the Europeans and their culture and agriculture in the Americas. In this paper I will be talking about diseases that came from Europe to Americas, then I will talk about animals that were diffused to America. After that I will talk about Europeans developing a political structure in the Americas. Finally, to end of the paper, I will talk about maritime technology. In this paper I will

Diamond argues against the possibility of change in climate killing the mammals as he states “Critic respond with a counter theory: perhaps the giants succumbed instead to a change in climate, such a severe drought on the already chronically dry Australian continent. …

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California, dives into the past, examining historical developments of societies compared to each other in the form of time, resources, and environment. Diamond summarizes the book in one sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among themselves” (Diamond 25). Diamond explains that dominance over others reflects the environment in which the people lived, not the people themselves. He backs this explanation with evidence from history in many different areas of history.