Guns, Germs And Steel By Jared Diamond

Guns, germs and steel Conquest has shaped modern history. The secret to their quest is guns, germs and steel, leaving the European in domination. How is it that Europeans where the ones with all of the advantages? Jared diamond set out to answer this question To discover the roots of inequality, he began with a journey to Papa New guini. This is where his ultimate search would begin. While in New Guine, Diamond met Yali; this is the man who asked the very infamous question. Why is it that Americans are so rich and they were so poor? When these goods brought by westerners were treated like religious items in New Gueini. Diamond first noticed that their misfortune is not because of their color. In many situations he would die without their help, but unlike westerners they developed without developing cities and urbanizing. This is when Diamond realized that the question wasn’t simply about new queini, but inequality as a whole. …show more content…
The Middle East 13,000 years ago was his example of people at this time, a society of hunter and gatherers. Ian Kite studies archeology in the Middle East. His team of archeologist had found remains of advance societies from 11,500 years ago. This happened from a radical shift in human behavior, growing their food instead of foraging it. This was the turn in human history, people who remained, as hunter-gatherers would forever be at a disadvantage. Diamond then traced farmer and discovered that agriculture was the key to civilization in all places other than Papa New