Jared Diamond Essay On Inequality

Early farmers in Europe and elsewhere practiced shifting cultivation, also known as swidden agriculture.Although the lands around the Mediterranean seem to have shared a complex of crops and farming techniques, geographical barriers blocked the spread elsewhere. Rainfall patterns south of the Sahara favored locally domesticated grains—sorghums, millets, and (in Ethiopia) teff—over wheat and barley. In the Americas a decline of game animals in the Tehuacán° Valley of Mexico after 8000 B.C.E. increased people’s dependence on wild plants. Agriculture based on maize (corn) developed there about 3000 B.C.E. and gradually spread. The first domesticated animal, the dog, may have helped hunters track game well before the Neolithic period. Later, animals initially provided meat but eventually supplied milk, wool, and energy as well.Meat eating did not decline during the revolution.

Each year income increases in the United States. Economic inequality and political inequality may have a connection where our democracy could be affected but americans have the ability to solve this problem. Economic inequality refers to wealth or income between different groups or a society as a whole. There have been past social movements that have tried to improve this problem such as women's suffrage and more. We are still trying to resolve this issue of economic inequality.

Although the Spanish and the British started colonizing the new world relatively at the same time their colonization efforts we’re extremely different but had some overlapping similarities. The differences include the two nations different reasoning to explore the New World, their relationship with the Natives, and it types of governments that they attempted to set up. Although some of these differences might not seem as if they are very important, they helped one nation do you better than the other one when it came to colonization efforts.

Because of this thinking, I feel the Aztecs never made technological advancements to bigger and better weapons which would later come back to haunt them when faced by an opponent that was fighting to kill such as the Spanish.

Farming initially developed in the Middle East, the Fertile Crescent. Grains such as barley and wild wheat were abundant. Also, not heavily forested, and animals were in short supply, presenting a challenge to hunters. 10,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. Notice: it took thousands of years for this “revolution” so not fast but profound for history. Agriculture was hard for many hunting and gathering peoples to adopt – lots of work. Those in agricultural communities developed diseases, which they became immune. The agricultural people would unintentionally infect the hunters.

The land of freedom, the United States, is the Promised Land for all. Its citizen can be much as prosperous as they want. Nonetheless, a phenomenon has occurred gradually that has changed the economy, social levels, income, and wealth of all Americans. This is called inequality. Inequality has become a social problem since people has not raised their voice take advantage of voting, large corporations as CEOs who take instead of give.

Hernan Cortez and Pizarro may have had better weapons the Natives that they conquered, but they were severely outnumbered. The secret to their success was the germs they brought with them. All the epidemics that the inadvertently started. Disease was their secret weapon, without it the Spanish may not have been able to inspire the rest of Europe to want a stake in the New World, and America would look very different

No matter what advantages the Incas had when it came to fighting, no one could have predicted that it soon would not be carried on by

I think the spanish conquistadors were able to so easily able to defeat the natives of South and Central America because the natives were so distracted by other things, such as the better weapons in document three, and the diseases in document four Document number three is called Cortés and the Spaniards move toward the City of Mexico and it's about the loud clamor that they made and the better weapons that they used Document number four is called The American Holocaust and it’s about the diseases that the spanish brought over and used to kill almost everyone in the Aztec empire. Using these two documents I am able to make a conclusion about how the spanish were able to defeat the natives so easily.

Spanish swords were fast and easy to swing around. They could stab and do deadly damage. The Aztecs didn’t have steel, so their shields and armor were not made to withstand the sword. Aztec war clubs were very sharp, as they were made from obsidian, but so heavy that a warrior needed to use both hands to swing it, and was not as strong as Spanish steel. Cortes brought horses, which easily outran Aztec foot soldiers. The gun was the biggest advantage that the Spanish had. According to one source, when Moctezuma had sent ambassadors to greet the Aztecs, Cortes fired his guns to impress them, and the ambassadors leaped into the sea from the shock of seeing the gun. The Aztecs had slings and spears, which could travel long distances and were very accurate, but were not as deadly as guns, which could fire fast and accurate with deadly results. Because Cortes brought these weapons, he is the reason the Aztec empire

One common reason people associate with Spain being able to conquer the Aztecs is simply the fact that they were more technologically advanced. While this is one reason that Spain was able to conquer the Aztecs it is not the sole reason. There were conquistadors before Cortes that had access to the same technology and yet failed to conquer the Aztec Empire. Hugh thomas wrote “Like Hernandez de Corboda, he had arquebusiers. Like Grijalva, he had artillery.” (Hugh Thomas,

Income Inequality in the United States has been a problem for decades. Since the year 1913 the gap in income inequality between the rich and poor in the U.S. has widened and has been a hot topic for debate. The rich keep getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Thomas Pogge a German philosopher and a professor at Yale University argue that we live in a world where income and wealth are very unevenly distributed throughout society, thus leading to widespread poverty. Amartya Sen an Indian economist and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity argues that really freedoms should be both the ends and means of human development. Robert Reich a professor at Berkeley University and former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, makes an fluent and impassioned

Spanish weapons were technologically more advanced than those of the Aztecs. Spanish steel swords did not shatter as native stone swords might, and their edges remained sharp longer. Importantly, they could wound with a forward thrust as well as by side-to-side slashing. According too Bernal Díaz, most of the natives killed in battle died from puncture wounds caused by sword thrusts (Barghusen 2000:55).

The Spanish didn’t fight to capture the enemy like how the Mexica fought, they fought to annihilate their opponents. Having the technology to create iron weapons such as long swords and lances, also plated armor with shields and helmets proved no match for Mexica weaponry. (Sahagun 2000, 130)The Mexica fought with bows and sling and in close combat with a wooden sword attached with obsidian (Schwartz 2000,11 ), which did little to no harm to the Spaniards. The Spanish also effectively used long range weapon to kill the enemy from a safe position, as stated in this excerpt “The steady bearing of our artillery, musketeers and crossbowmen, was indeed a help to us” (Diaz 2000, 107). Cortez also used psychological warfare on the indigenous population, understanding that they’ve never seen horses or heard cannons, used this to his advantage. While speaking with a few Caciques he secretly gave the order to fire a cannon, “it went off with such a thunderclap as wanted, and the ball went buzzing over the hills, and as it was midday and very still it made a great noise, and the Caciques were terrified on hearing it” (Diaz 2000, 63). These tactics proved how superior the Spaniards were to Mexica in

Although Latin America has faced many social, political, and economic issues within the last three centuries, inequality remains one of the most important, historical, and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization, they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender, ethnicities, and education remain strong and significant problems with a necessity for improvement. Inequality of wealth and disparity of power and influence are Latin American’s greatest curses and are at the root of many of the