In Jared Diamonds’ book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, he focuses on the European expansion and the domination of western cultures on the world. The title, “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” refers to the categories of the advancements leading to the spread of European culture throughout the world. However, one aspect that Diamond fails to mention in his book is why western cultures come to dominate the world. Numerous social and cultural factors promoted this European expansion.
As defined in the notes, culture is that which is learned, shared, and transmitted (Love, Cultural Change, pg. 1). Europeans changed and revolutionized. Change is complicated and cultures go through various changes throughout history. Culturally, Europeans didn’t only conquer others …show more content…
Invention is creating something new, while diffusion is borrowing or copying something invented by someone else. Diffusion is common since each different culture had different cultures and inventions that were shared with other cultures. Diamond’s work was to show the difference between people around the world is not attributed their race, rather to their geography, climate, titled axis and resources. With geography and the horizontal axis, Europe and Asia were able to domesticate faster. Even though Diamond mentions that with the horizontal axis, Europeans domesticated, which led to urbanization and population growth, which later led to completion, and then invention. He fails to cover culture in his text. Not all cultures were the same and not every culture was working on advancing and creating new technologies. Diffusion was not uniform throughout the various cultures. Cultural diversity allowed the sharing of creations from many cultures. This diversity throughout the cultures gave advantages, and the success of the Spanish in Cajamarca was not due to European inventions, rather due to diffusion of culture and practices. Culture was the advantage rather than geography that was covered by Diamond.
Culturally, invention was effected through environmental change, population pressure, and social pressures. Social pressures could be violent or nonviolent through competition, …show more content…
I understand Diamond not mentioning culture, maybe to show he is not favoring or calling one culture superior rather than another. However without culture, even with all of the benefits the Europeans had they would not be able to advance. Geography is not the only factor leading to human involvement, and the rate of one culture evolving faster than another. European culture for example had a huge influence, especially on those they conquered since they were ethnocentric and tried to change others. Their culture had a huge role in their influence on expansion, war, religion, education, and their ability to
As defined in the notes, culture is that which is learned, shared, and transmitted (Love, Cultural Change, pg. 1). Europeans changed and revolutionized. Change is complicated and cultures go through various changes throughout history. Culturally, Europeans didn’t only conquer others …show more content…
Invention is creating something new, while diffusion is borrowing or copying something invented by someone else. Diffusion is common since each different culture had different cultures and inventions that were shared with other cultures. Diamond’s work was to show the difference between people around the world is not attributed their race, rather to their geography, climate, titled axis and resources. With geography and the horizontal axis, Europe and Asia were able to domesticate faster. Even though Diamond mentions that with the horizontal axis, Europeans domesticated, which led to urbanization and population growth, which later led to completion, and then invention. He fails to cover culture in his text. Not all cultures were the same and not every culture was working on advancing and creating new technologies. Diffusion was not uniform throughout the various cultures. Cultural diversity allowed the sharing of creations from many cultures. This diversity throughout the cultures gave advantages, and the success of the Spanish in Cajamarca was not due to European inventions, rather due to diffusion of culture and practices. Culture was the advantage rather than geography that was covered by Diamond.
Culturally, invention was effected through environmental change, population pressure, and social pressures. Social pressures could be violent or nonviolent through competition, …show more content…
I understand Diamond not mentioning culture, maybe to show he is not favoring or calling one culture superior rather than another. However without culture, even with all of the benefits the Europeans had they would not be able to advance. Geography is not the only factor leading to human involvement, and the rate of one culture evolving faster than another. European culture for example had a huge influence, especially on those they conquered since they were ethnocentric and tried to change others. Their culture had a huge role in their influence on expansion, war, religion, education, and their ability to