Inequalities In Ancient Civilizations

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Inequality has always affected how civilisations survive throughout human history. Why? Well over the past 1,000 years humans have been on a race. What do I mean by this? Well, humans were born on certain continents which provided many different materials that benefited the civilisation living in that area. These materials were food and animals. Places like Eurasia and Papua New Guinea are a great example for this geography and how it affected the world. Geography affected a lot of how cultures developed throughout history, one of the things that started this evolutionary race, was climate. Climate has always been different across the globe because of the tilt of the earth. The tilt of the earth determined the distance and direction of where …show more content…

168 Spaniard Conquistadors traveled from Spain to South America but they had a secret weapons that they didn't even know they had. Germs. They didn't know it at the time but they wouldn't have been able to kill those 16,000,000 Incas without the help of germs. When they had arrived to the Americas, the Conquistadors were already immune to the disease because of the culture of living with their farm animals and they besides all the major technological breakthroughs they still didn’t have plumbing. The Incas only had llamas as their domesticated animal. The llamas weren’t used for anything other than carrying luggage which meant that the Incas didn’t have much contact with their llamas. This made it so that the Incas were exposed, or vulnerable, to any disease that the Spaniards were already immune to. As the disease spread, more and more Incas were dying, and the Conquistadors barely had to do anything because of how sick the Incas were. This made them very confident in themselves thinking that they were the best just because they were so developed compared to the Incas and they didn’t have to do much to take out the

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