Guns Germs And Steel Summary

Guns, Germs, and Steel was an extraordinary documentary about the adventures that Jared Diamond takes throughout the world to find the answers about poverty. The question that inspired Jared Diamond to take is adventures was “What are the roots of inequality?” His journey began in a rain forest of New Guinea. A man named Yali asked Jared the question “Why do you white men have so much more but the New Guineans don’t?” The most interesting aspect of episode one was the shortage of availability of food in New Guinea. Moving into episode two, the battle between the Spaniards and the Inca’s was extremely thought proving. Lastly, learning about the poor ways of the African people was devastating and interesting to see how poverty in Africa was so different than poverty in New Guinea. …show more content…
People were assigned jobs in order to find ways of food. The men were expected to hunt for animals such as rabbits and raccoon's. The women were responsible for knocking down huge Sacco trees and stripping the insides to create a formula that only lasted for around 12 hours. The process of getting this food was very tiring and extremely hard work. Sacco was very low protein, low yield, took several days to process, and spoils easily. People in the Middle East who had wheat, were more prosperous because wheat was way higher in protein and could be stored for years. The people of New Guinea would be starved to eventually eating spiders for protein. This makes me feel extremely fortunate for the food that I have available but it also makes me feel guilty for always wasting