SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Military Technology

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world (13) History followed different courses for different peoples because of difference among peoples" environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves. (25) Diamond focuses on food production, the differential effects of infectious diseases, and five aspects of technology. Writing: most eurasian states had literate bureaucracies , use of writing in the americas was confined to the elite in a small areas of mesoamerica. *continental differences in wild plant and animal species available for domestications. *rates of diffusion and migration which differed greatly among continents. *continental differences in area or total population size.