Prologue: History has advanced differently around the world for many people. Diamond believes that Europeans were more successful than any other society living in that time period. While Diamond was in New Guinea, he meets a man named Yali. Together they discuss how many unique lifestyles there were around the world. They also discuss how each lifestyle has their own way of living and surviving in their surroundings. Diamond believes that New Guineas are willing to learn more than the Europeans. The Europeans used steel; while the New Guineas used stone and wood. Diamond believes that the only way the Europeans had more advanced lifestyles were because of their leeway to farming, the raising of animals instead of hunting, and the resistance to diseases.
Chapter1: In chapter one he discusses how humans ventured off in different directions from animals in Africa. Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, the human race created the “Great Leap Forward”. Human development was dominant in some countries than others. The animals most common to the human race are gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees. Around 11,000 B.C. were the first sightings of villages to be seen. Fossils show that the human race changed about 2.5 million years
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There were four societies named. The four so cites were called band, tribe, chiefdom, and state. The bands were made up from about five to as much as eighty people that were usually family. The tribe had mostly one language and one race made up of many people with families too, had problems with solving disagreements. The states had over 20,000 people, villages, many relationships, many races, and many forms of government. Chiefdoms had only one religion, language, and race and had advanced food production. Most advanced society out of the four. The Kleptocrats had power by resisting violence and keeping order in their