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Inequality In The Ancient World

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What happened in history that places in the world have a very different atmosphere in the way they live. What happened that only some countries came out with the strongest way of life? Inequality stems from thousands of years of just being around other objects. It is the sole reason for why people like the 1% of Americans with billions, down to the poorest of the poor barely making a living of our broken system. Geography both impedes and helps civilizations. If a civilization is located where the is no agriculture or domestication of animals to help them advance, they are left in the Stone Age, however, if a civilization hits the geographical “lottery” they have all the resources they need to overtake other civilizations in the world. Geography …show more content…

Steel=Hot Fire+Lots of Iron+Time+Specialists. What a specialist is, is a person who spends their day tinkering with and object to seeing how it works and what it does. It took specialists a very long time to prefect Steel because they had to find the perfect temperature of the fire, how much iron and much more. The reason only Eurasia perfected steel first was with the help of many factors first was the hot fire, only a few places could be able to sustain a hot enough fire to melt iron. Second it was the ability to have lots of iron in their core, unlike other places like the Incan empire, who had gold. The reason the Inca had no steel is due to steel and its needs. They needed to get and all the Inca had was gold, while the Spanish did and they took over the world. Papua New Guinea did have iron, but they never had the time, climate, or specialists to create steel. Thirdly the Fertile Crescent had the time to craft the metal because of they had all the qualities to have a nice slow life. Lastly, they had specialists, the people to be able to just mess around with iron. All of this affected the Fertile Crescent by giving them an edge over other …show more content…

Germs can both be the best ally and the worst enemy. Germs and diseases like smallpox helped the 160 Spaniards in overpowering the Incan empire of hundreds of thousands with the help of germs and steel. The reason behind that is after thousands of years of sleeping, feeding and just being around domesticated animals gave them the ability to catch the disease and become immune to it. The reason the Incan never had germs is, they did have 1 domesticated animal, the llama, but they never slept near it, or was around it for long periods of time, thus they never became immune. Germs benefited the Spanish even though they also had steel the Spanish had germs and all they had to do was get close to them and the Inca would have gotten the disease. Smallpox was the disease that was spread in the conquesting of South America, with the benefit that it is highly contagious and very deadly, once the Inca got the disease, and the way of how they treated sickness back then was up close and patting them down with a rag, smallpox spread through them like wildfire. In a matter of days, they would die from smallpox, killing millions in just a few months. Germs helped the 160 men in ways they never knew for years and germs were just another “happy accident” they had stumbled upon in the evolution of their

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