SOCI 1010 : Guns, Germs and Steel.doc
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Jared diamond, guns, germs and steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, Vintage press, 1998, chapter 3, collision at cajamarca, pp 67-82. Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to new guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? one of the most famous quotes from the. Guns, germs, and steel, was written and asked by jared diamond in 1972. Germs, and steel, shows jared diamond attempts to explain the last 13,000 years of history with a rather simple idea from the present day, by taking the modern european displacement of native. In this book, diamond showed many interest in large scale trends and causes, of going deeply into the history. A good example of this is, in school, we were thought european conquest of the americas, even though americans were numbered and europeans were outnumbered.