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Guns, Germs, and Steel

JARED DIAMOND

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Name:_______________________________________________ Date:______________ Viewing Guide: Teacher?s Answer Key Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1 Directions: Before viewing the fi lm, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 1. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. Be prepared to discuss your answers with the class and to use them as you work on a project. 1. According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world?s ?haves? from the ?have nots?? Answer: Guns, germs, and steel 2. Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as ?among the world?s most culturally

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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?
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