QUESTIONS:
A. Prologue: What is Yali’s question? Restate the question in Professor Diamond’s words or your own words.
Yali’s question is “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?” (Diamond, 14.) In other words, why is history the way it is now? What had caused such differences and hierarchy?
B. Chapter 3: How does Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explain why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans colonizing Europe?
Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explains why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans because once Pizarro captured Atahuallpa he had captured the entire Inca Empire as well. “The Inca Empire …show more content…
Chapter 4: How did the availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia?
The availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia because it was the necessity of settlements. Eurasia was a very suitable place for domesticating plants, so the people living in those areas acquired this lifestyle. “Plant and animal domestication meant much more food and…much denser human populations…were a prerequisite for the development of settled…society” (Diamond, 92). This led to a more innovative and an advanced society. The people learned different uses of the animals such as for the military, which led to the making of weapons.
D. Chapter 6: What factors contributed to hunter-gatherers becoming farmers? Hunter-gatherers had traded with other farmers who had given them the idea of food production. Also, there was a “decline in the availability of wild foods” (Diamond, 110), and the resources they depended on decreased. As a result, it increased domesticated wild plants, which served as a good alternative for them. As population densities raised, food production attended well in feeding the numerous people. Lastly, food producers were outnumbering hunter-gatherers. This led the hunters and gatherers to be displaced by the food producers or follow their
A. Prologue: What is Yali’s question? Restate the question in Professor Diamond’s words or your own words.
Yali’s question is “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?” (Diamond, 14.) In other words, why is history the way it is now? What had caused such differences and hierarchy?
B. Chapter 3: How does Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explain why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans colonizing Europe?
Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa explains why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans because once Pizarro captured Atahuallpa he had captured the entire Inca Empire as well. “The Inca Empire …show more content…
Chapter 4: How did the availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia?
The availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia because it was the necessity of settlements. Eurasia was a very suitable place for domesticating plants, so the people living in those areas acquired this lifestyle. “Plant and animal domestication meant much more food and…much denser human populations…were a prerequisite for the development of settled…society” (Diamond, 92). This led to a more innovative and an advanced society. The people learned different uses of the animals such as for the military, which led to the making of weapons.
D. Chapter 6: What factors contributed to hunter-gatherers becoming farmers? Hunter-gatherers had traded with other farmers who had given them the idea of food production. Also, there was a “decline in the availability of wild foods” (Diamond, 110), and the resources they depended on decreased. As a result, it increased domesticated wild plants, which served as a good alternative for them. As population densities raised, food production attended well in feeding the numerous people. Lastly, food producers were outnumbering hunter-gatherers. This led the hunters and gatherers to be displaced by the food producers or follow their