In Guns, Germs, and Steel, a man named Jared Diamond is in New Guinea doing field work. He meets a New Guinean man named Yali. Yali and JD are both hungry for knowledge and goes exploring. While walking around, Yali asks JD why are the whites so successful and have so much “cargo” compared to the other locals. Then, JD rephrases the question: Why did the White Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns, population destroying germs, steel, and food producing capability? The main thesis is that this occurred not because racial differences and etc. but rather the environmental differences. JD wishes to play down the Eurocentric
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Cultural obstacles doesn't explain the absence of domesticates. They put in the effort in the 19C and 20C to domesticate large animals such as moose and elk. Only fourteen large animals have been domesticated. Such as sheep, pigs, cows, Arabian camels, Bactrian camels, llamas, donkeys, reindeers, water buffaloes, yaks, Bali cattle, and Mithans. Some species like zebra have never been domesticated. Domesticated animals changed through mutations from their non domesticated cousins. Many has gotten smaller than what they was in the past due to domestication. Only one large animal, the llama, is a New World domesticate. Eurasia has more animals that are domesticated than the New …show more content…
Some of the newer diseases back then, like small pox, wiped out ninety five percent of the Mississippi Indians, Peruvians, and Mexican natives. The number of domesticated animals and their aggressive attitude prevented the New World from spreading the diseases.
Writing originally started in South Western Asia with Sumerian cuneiform, Mesoamerica, and probably China. Other cultures adapted to writing by copying. Other sites of writing was Egypt and Easter Island. The Greeks adapted an alphabet adding vowel sounds. The Etruscans modified the Greek alphabet later used by the Romans. Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, created the Cherokee writing system using eighty five symbols. Writing was used to stratified societies by an elite force to maintain records and manage accounts. Hunter/gatherers did not ever developed writing.
The first printed document is the Cretan Minoan disk of 1700 BC. This didn't lead to future printing due to lack of technology. Early models of inventions were in bad bad shape. Food production, large population and land was in favor for invention development. In New Guinea, conservative and more societies lived right next to each other. The Navajo and other Indian tribes picked up on European use of dye and weaving(YAAAAASSSS) and also picked up on ranching. This also developed in Islam and China in the future. When the invention of guns came around, humans used it to their advantage to overrun other civilizations. But in Japan, the samurai
Cultural obstacles doesn't explain the absence of domesticates. They put in the effort in the 19C and 20C to domesticate large animals such as moose and elk. Only fourteen large animals have been domesticated. Such as sheep, pigs, cows, Arabian camels, Bactrian camels, llamas, donkeys, reindeers, water buffaloes, yaks, Bali cattle, and Mithans. Some species like zebra have never been domesticated. Domesticated animals changed through mutations from their non domesticated cousins. Many has gotten smaller than what they was in the past due to domestication. Only one large animal, the llama, is a New World domesticate. Eurasia has more animals that are domesticated than the New …show more content…
Some of the newer diseases back then, like small pox, wiped out ninety five percent of the Mississippi Indians, Peruvians, and Mexican natives. The number of domesticated animals and their aggressive attitude prevented the New World from spreading the diseases.
Writing originally started in South Western Asia with Sumerian cuneiform, Mesoamerica, and probably China. Other cultures adapted to writing by copying. Other sites of writing was Egypt and Easter Island. The Greeks adapted an alphabet adding vowel sounds. The Etruscans modified the Greek alphabet later used by the Romans. Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, created the Cherokee writing system using eighty five symbols. Writing was used to stratified societies by an elite force to maintain records and manage accounts. Hunter/gatherers did not ever developed writing.
The first printed document is the Cretan Minoan disk of 1700 BC. This didn't lead to future printing due to lack of technology. Early models of inventions were in bad bad shape. Food production, large population and land was in favor for invention development. In New Guinea, conservative and more societies lived right next to each other. The Navajo and other Indian tribes picked up on European use of dye and weaving(YAAAAASSSS) and also picked up on ranching. This also developed in Islam and China in the future. When the invention of guns came around, humans used it to their advantage to overrun other civilizations. But in Japan, the samurai