The main focus of this essay is; to what magnitude should source two of Jared diamond's theory of guns, germs, and steel be embraced. The second source is for Jared Diamond’s theory about guns, germs and steel. Source two acknowledges historical advantage of the development of Eurasian agriculture, which is the domestication of animals and crops. Source two is also against the idea of European domination is based on racial, intellectual, and genetic superiority, but mostly focuses on the idea that the main reason that the europeans dominated the world is because they had an advantage to begin farming earlier than most nations. The common population that would agree with source two would be people of the white race, most likely to be europeans, citizens who live in well off countries such as Canada or the United States.
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The source believes that Jared Diamond’s theory ignores the fact that much of Europe's dominance was based on exploiting ideas created by another country. For example guns and gunpowder originated in China, but when Europeans came to China they took the gun and gunpowder back to Europe with them and started using the gun in every war that was fought. People who would agree with this position would be the Chinese, Indians, and anthropologists who are jealous of Diamonds work. Jared Diamond is a UCLA professor of physiology and biology. He is 79 now. He wrote a book entitled “Guns, Germs and Steel , which is what this essay is based on, later National Geographic turned the book into a mini series. This book revolves around one question which a man named Yali asked Diamond when he went to Papua New Guinea 30-40 years ago. Yali’s question which urged diamond to write his book was “ Why you white men have so much cargo and we new guineans have so little?” The main position of this essay is that source two should be
The source believes that Jared Diamond’s theory ignores the fact that much of Europe's dominance was based on exploiting ideas created by another country. For example guns and gunpowder originated in China, but when Europeans came to China they took the gun and gunpowder back to Europe with them and started using the gun in every war that was fought. People who would agree with this position would be the Chinese, Indians, and anthropologists who are jealous of Diamonds work. Jared Diamond is a UCLA professor of physiology and biology. He is 79 now. He wrote a book entitled “Guns, Germs and Steel , which is what this essay is based on, later National Geographic turned the book into a mini series. This book revolves around one question which a man named Yali asked Diamond when he went to Papua New Guinea 30-40 years ago. Yali’s question which urged diamond to write his book was “ Why you white men have so much cargo and we new guineans have so little?” The main position of this essay is that source two should be