Review about the documentary “Guns, Germs and Steel”
“Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)” is a documentary which based on Jared Diamond’s homonymic book and was presented by National Geographic. The documentary contains three episodes: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into The Tropics; it begins with several thoughtful questions: Why did the European conquer other continents, rather than other continents conquer the European? What is secret of their success? Why the world becomes inequality like this way? At the beginning, the documentary overthrew the idea that the power is controlled by race. Indeed, in the series, narrator uses three keywords---guns, germs and steels to explain that geography is the main roots of the global inequality.
The natural resources distributed unequally in every continent which generates different rise of speed. The documentary uses the example of New Guinea to demonstrate the importance of geography in details. In the hunting and gathering period, people live in New Guinea used arrows to hunt animals, and gather local wild sagos and bananas. It could meet their daily …show more content…
The advantages of Pizarro and soldiers are that Spanish domesticated horses, they rid horses during the conquest; they had the resistance to epidemic diseases but Incan people had not; they also had the advanced technologies, like steels and guns; and based on cuneiform, Spanish had their own writing, but Incans did not have their own words. These were the reasons why Pizarro conquered Inca instead of Atahualpa conquered Spanish. The conquest of the Native Americans, was not only relied on military; Europeans brought the epidemic diseases which were native to livestocks. The Native Americans had limited domesticated animals, so they had worse resistance to diseases than Europeans; therefore nearly 95% of Native Americans died due to smallpox, influenza, plague and other
“Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)” is a documentary which based on Jared Diamond’s homonymic book and was presented by National Geographic. The documentary contains three episodes: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into The Tropics; it begins with several thoughtful questions: Why did the European conquer other continents, rather than other continents conquer the European? What is secret of their success? Why the world becomes inequality like this way? At the beginning, the documentary overthrew the idea that the power is controlled by race. Indeed, in the series, narrator uses three keywords---guns, germs and steels to explain that geography is the main roots of the global inequality.
The natural resources distributed unequally in every continent which generates different rise of speed. The documentary uses the example of New Guinea to demonstrate the importance of geography in details. In the hunting and gathering period, people live in New Guinea used arrows to hunt animals, and gather local wild sagos and bananas. It could meet their daily …show more content…
The advantages of Pizarro and soldiers are that Spanish domesticated horses, they rid horses during the conquest; they had the resistance to epidemic diseases but Incan people had not; they also had the advanced technologies, like steels and guns; and based on cuneiform, Spanish had their own writing, but Incans did not have their own words. These were the reasons why Pizarro conquered Inca instead of Atahualpa conquered Spanish. The conquest of the Native Americans, was not only relied on military; Europeans brought the epidemic diseases which were native to livestocks. The Native Americans had limited domesticated animals, so they had worse resistance to diseases than Europeans; therefore nearly 95% of Native Americans died due to smallpox, influenza, plague and other