In the book, Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to answer questions of conquest, such as why Eurasia conquered the Americas, and not the other way around. Diamond is a biologist by trade, and both impressed and disappointed the academic world with his new historian side. He believes the answer to western dominance lies in geography and the spread of guns, germs and steel. His theories had led him to be heavily critiqued by historians everywhere, including environmental historian J.R McNeil and Professor of Anthropology and Geography James Blaut. While Diamond provides solid ideas relating to the conquest of the New World, he often uses his scientistic background loosely with unclear supports forgetting other historical factors that
Chapter three of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is a story about how Francisco Pizarro, the Conquistador, brought the end to the Inca civilization with only two hundred men. Diamond uses real accounts from six of the 200 men to tell what happened. The story goes like: Francisco Pizarro by order of the King to travel across New World and conquer the lands and riches for his nation. They had gathered information about an Incan Empire and soon sent their sights on capturing the Incans. The Spanish Conquistadores tried to the Incan leader, Atahuallpa, to convert to Christianity but it failed so Pizarro then captured Atahullpa.
In Episode three of Gun Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond, describes how the European settlers settled in the southern parts of the African continent. Many of the farms animals that the European people brought played very important roles in the process of colonizing. Over time the Europeans developed some kind of refusal against the germs that the livestock carried. The germs and diseases began to spread amongst the Khoisan people which resulted in killing their population. After that happened the European population enlarge in potential and proportions.
“Canada’s road was evolutionary, not revolutionary.” To what extent do you agree with this question? The road to Canada’s independence was evolutionary due to changes and factors such as the formation of the new country, the new leading government and it was mostly made of negotiations to find what will best fit the new country. After the English took over New France, at that time called Lower Canada.
1. In the beginning of the chapter, there was an explosion that occurred. It seems as if there was a battle occurring from afar, but the boys weren’t able to see. I concluded that maybe there was a battle occurring from afar because in the novel, it states “…but there were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out, though not even a faint popping came down from the battle fought at ten miles’ height. But a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it.
In his essay, “A Pedagogical Response to The Aurora Shootings” (235) Henry Jenkins analyzes shocking events involving public shootings in society. His main objective is to discuss why violence is a prominent factor in our popular culture and how the media inflames the issue. Jenkins does pose his belief that violence should be critically debated in order to research the main cause of violence within people. He also states that people must step out of the “media effects” assumption of violence and expands the scale to the meaning of what violence represents in movies and books. Jenkin states, “To be extra clear, I do not think media is where this debate should be focused” (236).
Jared Diamond in his book titled Guns, Germs, and Steel tells about certain places in the world having more geographic luck than others and thus causing them to prosper. During the Civil War the North and the South were warring over state rights and slavery issues. While the industrial revolution fueled the creation of new inventions such as the steam engine, the south refused capitalize upon these new creations. When the North grew and continued to grow in its industrial strength, they began to make themselves a world power, causing the South to continue to mostly produce cotton and several other agricultural crops. The South didn’t provide many new technologies which limited there economic effect on trade and production.
“Canada’s road was evolutionary, not revolutionary.” To what extent do you agree with this question? The road leading to Canada’s independence was evolutionary due to a series of incremental changes and factors such as isolated rebellions, conferences, and the important acts. The Lower and Upper Canada to form a new country, and a new leading government which was mostly lead by the Constitution Act, 1867.
Up to this time period of the world, have all these things in the past happened to help our world move forward (evolutionary)? Or have these things worked against us (revolutionary)? Some things from our past have helped us move forward, but some have also held us back. In the past we have had a lot of wars, but how have they affected us today?
As a result of the groundbreaking Scientific Revolution society as a whole now has a better understanding of how the world works, which leads to many advancements in medicine, technology, and navigation. This movement challenged the scientific part of previous thought and sets the stage for the Enlightenment which will challenge political, social, and philosophical thought. Society is often in fear of change, because people become comfortable in old ways and don’t like the idea of having uncertainty in a new idea, like when a few years ago the iPhone was created. While the Millennial generation quickly became attached to the new device because of the fun games and quick access to an infinite amount of information, people of previous generations feared it because it is shown to decrease social skills. This relates to the Scientific Revolution because people were scared of drastic change, just as people in the
Courtney Lachney The Progressive Era Critical Thinking Activity Essay Rubric History shows how humans grew. It shows where we all originated from and how we made up our laws and such. History has brought about a lot of change. There are so many different ideals and beliefs that originated in the past. There were so many wars and killing sover things that were sometimes for the worst.
There have been debates over the years as to which aspect had the greatest impact on the Native peoples from the European explorers. Is it guns, germs, or steel? Over the years, a lot of the credit for European explorers being successful in the New World had been attributed to the advantages that they had, such as better weapons, being able to read, think critically and even the fact that they had horses. Let us first explore the effects that guns and steel had on the Native peoples. Guns and steel, when mentioned, symbolize Europeans’ technological competencies.
Deborah Swarthout Modern Man and Neanderthals WCCCD-Fall 2017 Modern Man and Neanderthals: Where did they go? It has long been thought that modern man evolved from the Neanderthals. Although we have many similarities, the most recent studies suggest that modern man actually co-existed alongside the Neanderthals and interbred with them to create the modern man we know today. Neanderthals or Neandertals (Homo Neanderthalensis) are considered to be our closest extinct human relatives.
Rex Evans Frontier Adventures and Hunger Games: The Cultural Dimensions of Darwinism June 26, 2015 Dr. Patrick B. Sharp In certain sections of the Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Charles Darwin shows the physiological progress of humans over time in their use of technology because of Natural Selection, and how he believes this was beneficial to man. Published on February 24, 1871 the Descent of Man was the follow-up to On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, which is widely considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. In chapter two, Darwin explores man’s development and evolution: I can see no reason why it should not have been advantageous... to have become more and more
Evolution is the development and change within heritable traits of different populations over generations. Over the years, humans have begun to invent things and change around their environment (the world) to suit their needs. With this is mind, we humans have not been paying attention to how these changes are affecting our evolution as a species. We are cheating natural selection with the design of medicines and medical procedures that allow us to live longer.
