James Diamond Steel

One of the main reasons for Africa being undeveloped is because Africans being sent out of Africa to become slaves in foreign lands. Since the Europeans removed tens of thousands of young men and women from Africa each year it weakened its population, making the work force in Africa much smaller, and the Europeans and new world plantation owners’ pockets much bigger.

In the novel Guns Germs and Steel, an American biologist named Jared Diamond is attempting to answer a question from a New Guinean politician named Yali, in July 1972. Yali asked him: (1)“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people hat little cargo of our own?” For over thirty years, Diamond was investigating our inferred history for clues, to answer Yali’s question. He published a scientific opinion that explains how geography is to blame for the dispersal of power, as few societies and civilizations inhabiting in the Middle East had access to resources, such as the seeds of highly nutritious crops alike wheat and barley, and useful livestock such as cow and sheep, which others

1. Summarize Yali’s question. This requires mentioning race, intelligence, and development of technology.  Yali asks "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?" What Yali is asking is about the origins of inequality between countries and societies in the world.  He wants to know why people of European descent are rich and powerful while people like him lack wealth and power. He is questioning the issues of race and technology.  He wants to know if there is something "wrong" with non-white people that make them unable to be as advanced technology as white people.

In this chapter Jared Diamond describes how two societies the Maori and the Moriori were almost whipped out by the environment and in some cases each other. These two societies had some of the same ancestors but the Maori were way more developed than the Moriori. In the chapter Diamond explains how they were separated but developed in opposite directions. Diamond then goes on to explaining how the islands these societies lived on were different from each either. The next main point of this chapter was how population and politics were worked out on these islands. It is shown how many people lived on each island from populations as little as 5 people per square mile to 1,100 people per square mile. Diamonds last topic explains how both of these societies needed to advance their tools in order to survive the conditions they lived in.

For the Polynesian people, Maori is able to develop a more complex economy and culture system than Moriori, because of the availability of new environment allows them to farm. With farming they can have surplus, which allowed them to establish their community to develop denser population, support army to specialize in fighting. Further more, with a larger group, they develop strong leadership and political organization.

4. The Maori evolved differently because of population and leadership differences. The Maori conquered the

Yali asks Professor Diamond "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?" Professor Diamond’s possible interpretation of this statement could be broken down as such: Why do Europeans create so many inventions and manufactured goods to bring elsewhere? This applies the concept that people of Eurasian origin tend to dominate the world in wealth and power.

“ Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdom's with iron tools.” “While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. “ Therefore, the European Imperialists have not only impacted the Caribbean, Aztec and Inca Empires and North America, Africa was also impacted

1. Why did Yali’s 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?”) motivate Diamond to write this book?

A. The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond, is researching birds on the island of New Guinea. When he is there Yali asks him a question. Yali’s question is "why is it that white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but black people had little cargo of our own?"

Gus germs and steel 1. Yali asks Diamond, “Why is it that you white people developed sp much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own.” 2. Jared Diamond’s thesis seems to be that external factors such as geography can affect the fate of human societies. In other words, what separates the winners from the losers is geography.

Stringed along from Europe to the new world arrived the conditions changed as colonization of whites

The novel Guns, Germs, and Steel, written by Jared Diamond, is a 1997 non-fiction that describes the fate of human societies through a geographically based natural experiment (Diamond, Jared). It portrays how varying geography affects its culture, and how the availability of natural resources and the clash of different societies resulted in the supremacy of some societies, at the collapse of others. The rise of the primacy began in the 16th century, on a series of islands known as the chatham islands (Diamond, Jared M). Near the border of New Zealand, the chatham islands in the --__ was the home to a group of indigenous Polynesian people known as the Maori. In the ____, a portion of the Maori population traveled to an uninhabited island of

They had much more animals to domesticate than the Maoris. Eventually the Morioris invaded the Maoris to gain land and build a society at the Chatham Islands. The Morioris invasion of Chatham Islands goes along with Jared’s thesis because Eurasia did what Morioris did, took over other regions for their lack of resources and lack of defence to build a society and increase their ideology and population. Throughout Eurasia, the regions goes from west to east having the same climate all along the land, unlike the Americas. The climates are very different from North to South, for example in Northern America it is very cold and snowy as for South America it is the complete opposite having very warm weather and warm environment. Also throughout Eurasia they had more animals and plants domesticated than any other regions. Eurasia also had food and resources than other regions because from west to east they had similar resources because of the similar

What: The European countries, which had far more advanced technology was seen as “the strongest” and therefore took benefit of the weaker African nations