Essay On Guns Germs And Steel

1058 Words3 Pages

Guns, Germs and Steel There is nothing better then realizing that each indigenous people evolved into something better or that they found ways to survive in situations they weren’t use too. There were many changes that happened over time that cause for situations to change for everyone around them. But it also has helped with being able to progress with the way they lived. Jared diamond the author of Guns, Germs and Steel interpret his famous theory oh how we came to be. How the geography luck helped each country developed more rapidly than others as well as being able to expand more. However they also had geography luck when it came to how many advantages they had with the technology nevertheless, germs also was a big part of how the conquered most of the lands because it would kill instantly millions of european and …show more content…

It is important for people to understand and know what went on in all time periods and how one simple animal cause be the one thing that gets you by each day or how evolving to something greater can either be successful or a disaster depending on where anyone is located. Jared Diamond allowed us to understand how guns, germs and steel helped countries not be so isolated and be open to new technology that helped them prosper to something bigger than what they had. To conclude many nations use the three theories that jared diamond shares so that countries could prosper to something bigger than what they had hence, they also used it to conquer other civilizations so they could gain as much power as they could. To sum up Jared Diamond saw geography more than a way to expand from either east to west but a way to use what they had or what others brought so that they can gain more power while using the theories guns, germs, and steel

Show More
Related

  • Guns Germs Steel

    1357 Words  | 3 Pages

    Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning, National Best Selling book Guns, Germs and Steel, summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns, Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond's views on how the world as we know it developed. However, is his thesis that environmental factors contribute so greatly to the development of society and culture valid? Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History is the textbook used for this class and it poses several different accounts of how society and culture developed that differ from Diamond's claims. However, neither Diamond nor Traditions are incorrect. Each poses varying, yet true, accounts of the same historical events. Each text chose to analyze history in a different manner. Not without flaws, Jared Diamond makes many claims throughout his work, and provides numerous examples and evidence to support his theories. In this essay, I will summarize Jared Diamond's accounts of world history and evolution of culture, and compare and contrast it with what I have learned using the textbook for this class.

    Read More

  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

    1506 Words  | 4 Pages

    The prologue of the book clearly lays out Diamond thesis. He explains that past societies have collapsed based on five factors: human induced environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, friendly trade partners, and society’s response to environmental problems. He also explains how is wrote this book in a scientific manner using the “comparative method”, comparing natural situations differing with respect to the variable of interest. There is a slight flaw in this though. Showing these correlations between different societies,...

    Read More

  • The Role of Disease in European Exploration and Colonization

    1892 Words  | 4 Pages

    Human mobility, in terms of European transcontinental exploration and colonization, began to truly flourish after the 1400s. This travel, inspired by financial motives and justified by religious goals, resulted in the European dominance and decimation of countless cultures in both the Americas and Eurasia. While at first glance it seems as though this dominance was achieved through mainly military means - European militias, like Spanish conquistadors, rolling over native tribes with their technologically advanced weapons - the reality is significantly more complex. The Europeans, most likely unknowingly, employed another, equally deadly weapon during their exploits. With their travel, they brought with them the infectious diseases of their homelands, exposing the defenseless natives to foreign malady that their bodies had no hope of developing immunities against. Because of the nature of disease and their limited knowledge about its modes of infection, the Europeans were able to dispense highly contagious and mortal illnesses while limiting their contraction of any native ones to the new territories. In short, they were able to kill without being killed. In this way, the travel of disease in conjunction with the travel of humans in a search for exotic commodities was able to limit or even halt the development of some cultures while allowing others to flourish at exponential rates.

    Read More

  • What It Means To Be Australian

    355 Words  | 1 Pages

    The Aboriginal people of Australia were here thousands of years before European settlement and we forced them to adapt to the changes of environment around them. This change might be for better or worse, but we will never find out. But with the European settlement came the birth of industry, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, manufacture, electricity, gas and water just to name a few.

    Read More

  • Guns, Germs, And Steel Review

    1281 Words  | 3 Pages

    I first read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating, but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea, as opposed to, say, an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes" of his book: the dramatic Spanish conquest of the Incas; the impact of continental geography on food production; and finally, the origins of the Eurasian development of guns, germs, and steel. In terms of structure, I will first summarize the book's arguments, then critically assess the book's evidentiary base, and conclude with an analysis of how Guns, Germs, and Steel ultimately helps to address the wealth question.

    Read More

  • Similarities And Differences Between European Native American And African Societies

    1627 Words  | 4 Pages

    The European influences to the Native Americans were Europeans carried the new diseases to the Indians. “Europeans were used to these diseases, but Indian people had no resistance to them. Sometimes the illnesses spread through direct contact with colonists. Other times, they were transmitted as Indians traded with one another. The result of this contact with European germs was horrible. Sometimes whole villages perished in a short time” (Kincheloe). Slave trade was another influence to American Indians. Europeans soon realized that they could provide commercial goods such as tools and weapons to some American Indian tribes that would bring them other Indians captured in tribal wars, and these captured Indians were bought and sold as slaves. Therefore, “slavery led to warfare among tribes and too much hardship. Many tribes had to move to escape the slave trade, which destroyed some tribes completely. In time, the practice of enslaving Native peoples ended. However, it had greatly affected American Indians of the South and the Southwest” (Kinchloe). Lastly, Europeans change Native America and African’ roots. Native Americans

    Read More

  • Guns Germs And Steel Thesis

    867 Words  | 2 Pages

    I believe that the environment deiced whether a society will or will not have technology, militaristic and farming abilities imbedded within the society. That will give an advantage so that one society is better equipped than others.

    Read More

  • Gun Safe Essay

    562 Words  | 2 Pages

    People with guns need safes that can secure and protect their firearms. There are a variety of gun safes available in the market and each gun safe caters to a specific need, and what works for one gun owner may not work for the other.

    Read More

  • Why Did Human Unfold Differently Continents, By Jared Diamond

    681 Words  | 2 Pages

    Diamond believes that human development in Eurasia could possibly be due to, for a lack of better term, luck. Eurasia's luck in geographical location allowed them to advance in animal domestication and crop growth. The fact that Europe was densely populated allowed then to develop such diseases and for them to grow the immunity for them. Geography plays a huge role in why there is inequality found throughout the world. It is not solely based on society's will to progress. Race, money, and IQ are not the only things that influence a society's advancement. Diamond uses his scientific background to gather evidence from agriculture and other disciplines for his

    Read More

  • Was Disease a key factor

    985 Words  | 2 Pages

    Microbes from Europe introduced new diseases and produced devastating epidemics that swept through the native populations (Nichols 2008). The result from the diseases brought over, such as smallpox, was a demographic catastrophe that killed millions of people, weakened existing societies, and greatly aided the Spanish and Portuguese in their rapid and devastating conquest of the existing American empires (Brinkley 2014). Interaction took place with the arrival of whites and foreigners. The first and perhaps most profound result of this exchange was the imp...

    Read More

  • The Impact Of The Columbian Exchange

    1103 Words  | 3 Pages

    All of this had nothing to do with superiority or inferiority of biosystems in any absolute sense. It has to do with environmental differences. Amerindians were used to living in one specific kind of environment, Europeans and Africans in another. The Old World people went to America, the people brought with them their plants, animals, and germs, creating a kind of a habitat to which they were pretty much converted, and so they expanded in variety and quantity. Amerindians had not adjusted to European germs, and so initially their numbers descended. That decrease has altered in our time as Amerindian people have redefined to the Old World’s environmental influence, but the demographic victorious of the aggressors, which was the most amazing part of the Old World’s capture of the New, still stands.

    Read More

  • Clash Of Culture: In The 1490 European Exploration Of The Americas

    1143 Words  | 3 Pages

    Battling New Diseases: With the Europeans coming it had a deadly impact on the Native Americans. Before the Native americans were not really exposed to diseases that the europeans had so when the europeans made contact with the Native americans they had no immunity and it killed a lot of native americans. Against all odds some Native americans survived the diseases, and soon the Europeans didn't need the Native americans anymore.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast India And China Civilization

    1123 Words  | 3 Pages

    Geography has provided natural resources and boundaries for cultures continuously over many generations. The topography led civilization to have protection from other cultures and plentiful natural resources that they used for human survival or for an economic profit. With a good amount of resources available, cultures like India and China thrived in the creation and expansion of their civilizations. Geography helped India and China civilization develop their culture, spread their religion, and determine the rate at which each civilization’s ideas were transferred. The physical features that India and China lived on helped their cultures form and thrive into their current form.

    Read More

  • In Praise of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

    1016 Words  | 3 Pages

    Diamond's hypothesis is that geography gave certain groups big initial advantages. Specifically, some places are more conducive to domestication of plants and animals. Most people think that domestication is just a matter of capturing animals and breeding them in captivity. This is a misconception. Domesticated species of plants and animals have undergone major genetic changes through years of selective breeding. Compared to their wild ancestors, the major cereal crops are more nutritious, quicker to germinate, and easier to sow and harvest. Domestic animals are more docile, easier to train, and generally more suited to life in captivity. Diamond's key point is that not every wild species is equally susceptible to domestication and that domesticable species are not evenly distributed across the globe. Wild horses and camels had the "right" stuff, reindeer not so much. As modern attempts to domesticat...

    Read More

  • Salt And Sugar Essay

    781 Words  | 2 Pages

    There are many natural resources and products that us people take for granted. Resources such as salt, water, sugar, and cotton are items we see and use on a daily basis. Back then, however, the availability and desire of some of these resources determines the success or crumble of certain civilizations. Throughout history, salt and sugar have shaped the development and success of some civilizations, empires, and more. If salt and sugar never existed, life today would definitely be different. Not only because of today’s uses, but because some discoveries made by some ancient civilizations may never have been found as those civilizations wouldn't flourish on those resources and then crumble. The availability and desire of salt and sugar have significantly helped the development of civilizations and cultures but it has also hindered them. Many people in these

    Read More

More about Essay On Guns Germs And Steel

Open Document