Guns, Germs And Steel By Jared Diamond

Agriculture played a pivotal role in the evolution of human life, as well as revolutionize the globe to what it is today. Jared Diamond wrote a book that is called "Guns, Germs and Steel". In the book, he explains why some societies are materially successful than others. He attributes societal success to geography, immunity to germs, food production, the domestication of animals, and use of steel. Other parts of the globe, such as Europe While on a trip in New Guinea, one of the politicians named Yali, asked the 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?", which made him write a book about it. Diamond’s answer was that people from other

According to the article, “A Different Point of View: A Critique of Diamond’s Work”, it states “...Diamond’s central conception is that the course of history, broadly speaking, is not determined by individual actions, cultural factors, or racial differences, but by the environmental circumstances into which different groups of people accidentally wandered”. Based on where the people are located, the people over in the area tend to be more fortunate based on the climate in the area. According to the reading, it states “...to wind up in places that offered a variety of plants and animals suitable for domestication, and that made acquiring domesticated species and new technologies from other societies relatively easy, wounded up having a decisive advantage over groups located in environments lacking those features”. The population, or white people to be specific, were fortunate enough to have their resources and adapting to their environment to reproduce helped them be advanced in some areas around the

According to the article, “A Different Point of View: A Critique of Diamond’s Work”, it states “Thus it is geography, claims Diamond, and not greater inventiveness, a superior culture, or racial differences that is the “ultimate explanation” of why, for instance, Europeans came to rule the Americas rather than American Indians ruling Europe”. What the author, Gene Callahan, is saying so far is true. “In attempting to explain why the Vikings did not successfully colonize the New World, while the Spaniards and the Europeans who followed in their wake did, he writes ‘Spain, unlike Norway, was rich and populous enough to support exploration and subsidize colonies…” That statement that Jared made is partially false, because Norway did successfully explore the North Atlantic, and did successfully colonize the Faeroe Islands and Iceland. According to “The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 13”, it states “The Faroe Islands were transferred with their mother country, Norway, to the Danish…” This briefly proves that the nation was strong enough in power to colonize the islands based on their