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COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond attempts to answer the question, “What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?” This book is divided into four main sections, and I’ll be talking about the most important sections and the most important chapters in it. The first section starts off with Diamond going in to the present in the United States. He starts off with the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. While it seems untouched, with endless

Although Greenland and Australia are thousands of miles apart and very different in geography, they also have many similarities. In his book “Collapse”, Jared Diamond shows that both countries have the five factors that can contribute to a society’s collapse. Greenland’s Norse society already collapsed a long time ago, while Australia is still a First World country going strong. If some things there don’t change, the country’s living standard will go down and there could be major problems.

Until the recent year of 1987 people often saw the neolithic age as a glorious turning point that made us the great spices we are today, but Jared diamond a brilliant scientist of his age wrote an article for discover magazine called The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared diamond which presented a rare idea of the neolithic age being a mistake by our ancestors. He talked about how with agriculture came biased and disease like a real pandora's box. Disease was mostly caused by

by James Aimers and Jared Diamond’s TED presentation both acknowledge that multiple factors led to the decline of the Mayan empire such as climate change, wars, and socio-economic factors. Where Diamond and Aimers differ is their description of the rapidity of the collapse of the Maya. Jared Diamond uses the example of the Maya of the Yucatan whose society collapsed in the early 800’s quickly in the span of decades, directly after a period of great growth and prosperity. Diamond uses this single example

Jared Diamond's "The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization" draws conclusions between past civilizations and today's global civilization. His essay deals with the Analyzing the similarities in our actions to key turning points for other civilizations right before their fall. The main example stems from a civilization that Americans are acutely aware of, the Mayans. Diamond links ideas ranging from politics, environmentally unfriendly practices, and globalization as factors

Hauselmann Jared Diamond in his book “Collapse”, goes on a journey throughout the world and discovers what made some of the world’s greatest societies and civilization’s “collapse”. Jared Diamond is currently a Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Jared Diamond is originally trained as a bird scientist. But is best known for a wide range of expertise in other areas of profession, such as ecology, geography, biology, etc. Jared Diamond is a very influential

Professor Jared Diamond was fascinated about how and why the Europeans were successful conquerors of a large majority of the globe. By searching for answers he developed a highly original theory, “That what separated the winners from the losers is the land itself: Geography” (1:33) Jared Diamond`s quest to understand the roots of power and how geography effected the conquest of the world. Inca Empire was enormous but Spain had much more experience and knowledge, that gave them the upper hand. The

This documentary provided insight to the way that I saw the development of the geographic world. I have to admit that this was one of the good documentaries I have seen in a while. The ideas of Professor Jared Diamond were very interesting to say the least. What I found interesting is that the status of civilizations surviving or dying off is determined by its food supply, which is basically their ground work. It appears that the more food a society has, the more its culture can pass out those

Jared Diamond's 'Weapons, Germs, and Steel' is an exceptionally amazing novel which uncovers the insider facts about the genuine history of the human humankind. I left away inspired by its achievement in compacting 13,000 years of mankind's history into a clear and convincing clarification of why the rate of financial advancement changed so remarkably on distinctive mainlands, without depending on culturalist or racialist contentions. Jared Diamond succeeds terrifically at demonstrating why Eurasia

In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond gives you an in depth look at societies you may or may not be familiar with and shows you the secrets to their success or failure using his personal 5-point framework. I enjoyed this book and thought he made a lot of good points and had convincing evidence to back it up. While reading you could really tell he knew a lot about the areas he discussed because of the depth he went into with details and descriptions. One complaint I would have about the book is the