Summary Of The Documentary 'Human Inequality' By Jarred Diamond

Recently in class we watched an episode of “Guns, Germs and Steel” a documentary about human inequality by Jarred Diamond. Diamond explained how certain societies advanced faster than others, and explains how agriculture affects our societies today. Agriculture is something we take for granite inner society, when it is vitally important for the society we have today. It all began with our ancestors, our hunter-gather roots as they become farmers. Most Hunter-gathers became farmers because it was easier to sustain and survive while farming. Not everyone felt this way and many continued as hunter-gathers. The few groups that did move to faming quickly saw increased population growth. As we continued farming our ancestors saw something very interesting, never before seen, “extra food”. At this time it was a new concept and it changed the world. Now that we had extra food we no longer needed to hunt or gather, freeing up lot’s of time to think, we had no tvs, or cellphones we had imagination. Our ancestors had to think, and that then leads to inventions . Did everyone survive when we started using farming, no most people didn’t survive past three, but the few who did led to a revolution. …show more content…
This led to a specialist, a person who specialized in a certain area or subject ; reading, writing, math. Back in the “old days” there were specialists in wood, fire, metal, etc. Today we still have specialists, in fact most people are specialists,: Doctos, lawyer, delivery men, etc and then there are farmers. In the ancestors time we had metal and fire specialists who may have learned to extract precious metals from the rock. Or fire specialists learned how to make the fire hotter to cook meat