Guns Germs And Steel Chapter Summary

His name was on police records for running scams and he quickly rose to power by working with other mafia leaders in the country to build an empire and gain used his ties to other mafia leaders across the country to create a network of connections and to gain control in the American mafia organization. By 1910 D'Aquila was the official ringleader of his own New York–based Sicilian mafia group. In 1928 Salvatore was murdered by Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria murderer’s who was the boss of the Genovese family. Alfred “Al Mineo” Manfredi took over until he killed in the Castellammarese War in 1930. Then Frank Scalise became the new boss and remained in power for three years. Vincent Mangano stayed in power for twenty years until he was murdered and helped the family become more ruthless. Albert Anastasia was rumored to be responsible for Vincent Mangano’s death but denied it. However, he was named the new boss but his reign was short lived due to his murder in 1957. The Commission promoted Carlo Gambino as the new boss of the Anastasia family which turned into the Gambino crime family. Carlo Gambino is believed to have helped organize the hit to take over the

The overall point of this chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond was to give a quick explanation on why Europeans societies have dominated, and even stomped out, other ones. He attempts to find this answer after a man named Yali, asked him, “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?” It was a seemingly simple question that Diamond did not have the answer to. He researches and writes this book, years later, to answer Yali’s question. The author acknowledged other answers to this question, for example: Europeans are more intelligent. Diamond rebuttals this with an explanation on why that is not correct, and tells us why he believes people like the New Guineans, are more intelligent. He points out that European children stay at home and watch tv, sit at the computer, and play video games, while New Guinean children, play outside with friends and family. Though, how playing outside, rather than inside, is a good point to make about who is more intelligent, is not explained any further. A lot of the answers historians have come up with are racist, that many do not accept, but many also do.

The Inca empire was the largest and most advanced empire in Pre-Columbian American. However, the Spanish led by Francisso Pizarro subjugated the Inca empire in 1572. Within mere 62 soldiers mounted on horses and 106 foot soldiers against 80,000 Incan soldiers, the Spaniard wins and killed thousands of the Incans. The Spaniard also apprehends the Inca emperor, Atahuallpa;the Spaniard received the greatest ransom in history and killed Atahuallpa afterward. In "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond, Diamond summarize the Inca empire collapsed so fast during the battle against the Spanish are because the lack of technology and knowledge and the diseases brought to the land by the Spanish. In my point of view that even if Pizarro's attack had

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.

The question of why civilization has evolved to it's present form is a complicated one. It is an area of study that is fraught with pitfalls and easy-to-make assumptions about cultures, specifically why some have advanced far enough to control the majority of the world while others have never managed to advance beyond simple hunting and gathering. In his book “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, author Jared Diamond attempts to explain the factors at play in our history that led to the modern world. In Chapter 9, titled “Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle”, Diamond explores the patterns of domestication in ancient cultures. He examines the types of animals that humans domesticated, as well as the distribution of domesticated animals and the effect on human society that this uneven distribution would bring. Ultimately he will argue that environment, not culture, is what drove the domestication of animals in the ancient world.

The Moriori and the Maori people developed differently due to environmental differences. Although the Maori people were originally farmers, their cold crops could not grow in the cold climate of the Chathams. This caused them to resort to hunting/gathering. While this got them by, they weren’t able to bring in the mass amount of crops needed to support the other nonhunting craft specialists. Their prey did not require elaborate machines, so they just used traditional hunting methods. Also, they were a small island with no easily accessible neighboring islands, so they did not colonize and they learned to get along with each

Beginning his scientific career in physiology, then expanding into evolutionary biology and biogeography Jared Diamond is the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. On July 1972, Mr. Diamond visited New Guinea where he studied bird evolution along a beach. He met a local New Guinean named Yali, who would ask Diamond a question, which would take him twenty-five years to try to find an answer. Yali’s questions, "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?.” Guns, Germs, and Steel attempt to answer Yali’s question through following the first civilizations. Diamond discusses why some societies were able to develop writing, agriculture, change from framers to gathers while other societies stayed the same.

The Prologue: A biologist named Jared Diamond was in New Guinea to research the evolution of birds in the area. While on the beach Jared encountered a New Guinean politician named Yali. After walking on the beach having a conversation together Yali asked Jared how people settled in New Guinea over ten thousand years ago but white Europeans took political control over it in the last 200 years. Jared’s theory is that this happened due to environmental variations, not because of racial differences. Jared does not agree with Eurocentric thinking or intelligence due to race, he in fact thinks that industrialized people are less intelligent than modern stone age people.

100 years ago my grandfather Salvatore Rosario Passalaqua owned Sicilian land in the village of San Marco d’Alunzio. Salvatore was a Citrus Grower and Cattle Rancher. At the time thieves and bandits were running rampid stealing cattle and burning orchards across Sicily. The Cosa Nostra was formed in retrieving what was stolen, and killing those caught in burning orange groves. What began as an innocent act turned into an establishment turned bad. My grandfather joined forces with the Cosa Nostra after he had lost everything in a vicious battle and fled with family to New Orleans Louisiana with settling; settling in Old Algiers.

La Cosa Nostra, ItaThe La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is the most prominent Italian organized crime group operating in the

After the prohibition being repealed in 1933 the mafia had moved to illegal ventures like drug trafficking and loan-sharking while also infiltrating labour unions and legitimate such as construction, waterfront commerce and New York garment industry (clothing). The mafia had five organized families in New York. The five mafia families were Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and last but not least Lucchese. Even though the families had illegal activity they knew the law would get involved. To stop them from getting caught up they would either pay off the lawyers, or have to beat/intimidate the witnesses to have them not confess. The mafia had a lot of codes for you not to break, but the one code that meant2 the most to them was being silent (not snitching) when feds caught up to them. If you were to ever break any of the codes especially not snitching you would suffer some bad consequences. Death was the most popular consequence, but your family would probably suffer as well. By the 21st century the FBI had started cracking down on the mafia. This caused them to be nothing but shadows doing work behind closed doors. In 1963, when convicted New York mobster Joseph Valachi broke the code of silence. As he soon became the government’s pet he began to reveal everything that went down. Taking some of the mafia and their operations to the abyss, in the 70s the war against the mafia, the government was finally winning3. Yet they may not seem as active they still

Salvatore Maranzano: Organizer of the Families Salvatore Maranzono was born in 1868 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy and died on September 10, 1931 in New York City. Maranzono was a “Moustache Pete” who immigrated to the United States and started up his own family-gang known as the Castellammare gang (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). A bloody conflict between the Castellammare gang and the Morello gang for power soon took place in 1930. After about a year of fighting the Morello gang was finally subdued with the assassination of their boss Joe Masseria. After Masseria’s death Maranzano established himself as the “Boss of all Bosses”.

The Corleonesi changed during this period as a new boss Bernardo Provenzano took reign of the Corleonesi. Before Provenzano, Riina had control of the Corleonesi and while during Riina’s control they took on more of a terrorist look and feel. Provenzano earned the nickname ‘The Tractor’ because of his endless want to find his enemies; however, on the other end of the spectrum, Provenzano was also known as ‘the Accountant’ because of his help with incorporating politics and business into the Corleonesi under Riina’s lead. Provenzano attempted to make the Corleonesi appear less in the news and in the media; thus, this caused the number of murders to go down drastically and caused the number of pentito to go down in number also. The approach

The Corleonesi was a mafia group whose leaders were originated from Corleone, Italy. The main leader Luciano Leggio. Leggio started out working for Micele Navarra. While under Navarra, Leggio’s murder of Placido Rizzotto, a resistance veteran, is on the most noteworthy murders of a political figure in the years after the war. This murder shows just the beginning brutality of what was yet to come of Leggio and the Corleonesi. Leggio hid from authority after the murdering Rizzotto, and due to his skill at staying away from justice, he was given the nickname “Scarlet Pimpernel”. Much like the brutality shown in his murder of Rizzotto, his secretiveness and concealment would also become areas that the Corleonesi would become known for. Leggio,