Prologue: History is the most important thing in the world because of how it affects people and societies all around the world. Traces of history go all the way back millions of years ago forming wealth and power to this day. In this book Jared Diamond is determined to explain why there were so many different rates of human development on different continents and to his traditional views and opinions. The "rise of civilization" conveys the opinions and true meanings behind civilization and how it came about. There is evidence proving some theories to be correct while as others are more questionable making Diamond even more curious to explain the unknown.
Chapter 1: Diamond right away creates the accumulation that humans are from a lineage of other animals in Africa from about seven million years ago. He also stated that human ancestors began walking around 4 million years ago and moved to different continents over one to two million years ago. 100,000- 50,000 years ago, not long after human fosils were found resembling homosapiens, our race created art and technology called The Great Leap Forward time period. After that human race expanded its territory and the colonization in America began about 12,000-13,000 years ago. It also explains how many animals and other creatures existed but many of them were …show more content…
The clause include the continental differenes in wild plant and animal species that could be dometicated, the orientation of axis for a continent, the relative isolation of people, and the continental differences in size of land and
Chapter 1: Diamond right away creates the accumulation that humans are from a lineage of other animals in Africa from about seven million years ago. He also stated that human ancestors began walking around 4 million years ago and moved to different continents over one to two million years ago. 100,000- 50,000 years ago, not long after human fosils were found resembling homosapiens, our race created art and technology called The Great Leap Forward time period. After that human race expanded its territory and the colonization in America began about 12,000-13,000 years ago. It also explains how many animals and other creatures existed but many of them were …show more content…
The clause include the continental differenes in wild plant and animal species that could be dometicated, the orientation of axis for a continent, the relative isolation of people, and the continental differences in size of land and