Guns, Germs and Steel video Notes
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World History [1]
Notes on Gus, Germs and Steel Overview ? ? An Inca procession Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years ? from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality. ? Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet? ? Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead? ? Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East? ? Why did farming never emerge in Australia?