Guns, Germs and Steel Essay
Do you ever wonder why certain places of the world starve every day, but places like the
United States have advanced technology and so much food to spare? The answer lies in geography. Geography is the key factor in how a civilization can advance or why is cannot, this being demonstrated flawlessly by its dictation of agriculture ( what crops people can grow ), domesticated animals ( what animals are domesticable ), disease and genetic immunization ( who is exposed to what viruses and bacteria and when ), and who has the best resources and the most amount of time to become specialists and create steel. Geographic location affects the crops a civilization can grow by creating either an extraordinarily warm, exceptionally cold, or somewhere …show more content…
Other regions of the world that didn’t have domesticated animals had even less free time to advance technology and become specialists instead of farming. Often, people talking about inequality will mention how not having domesticated animals was a horrendous disadvantage, but my opinion is unpopular. I believe that, yes of course domesticated animals were important and played a role in the game of inequality around the world, but my point is that the regions that didn’t have domesticated animals at the time, still advanced greatly, just not as fast. Take the Incas for example. They only had one species of domesticable animal ( llamas ), and they technologically advanced pretty fast. They had a huge advantage over others in terms of numbers, the only problem was that they weren’t exposed to early epidemics.
Germs, along with agriculture and domestic animals, was responsible for some aspects of inequality in the world. Take the Incas and the Spaniards for example. When the Inca and
Spaniard’s conflict is looked over, a question arises: how did the Spaniards, an army of
Do you ever wonder why certain places of the world starve every day, but places like the
United States have advanced technology and so much food to spare? The answer lies in geography. Geography is the key factor in how a civilization can advance or why is cannot, this being demonstrated flawlessly by its dictation of agriculture ( what crops people can grow ), domesticated animals ( what animals are domesticable ), disease and genetic immunization ( who is exposed to what viruses and bacteria and when ), and who has the best resources and the most amount of time to become specialists and create steel. Geographic location affects the crops a civilization can grow by creating either an extraordinarily warm, exceptionally cold, or somewhere …show more content…
Other regions of the world that didn’t have domesticated animals had even less free time to advance technology and become specialists instead of farming. Often, people talking about inequality will mention how not having domesticated animals was a horrendous disadvantage, but my opinion is unpopular. I believe that, yes of course domesticated animals were important and played a role in the game of inequality around the world, but my point is that the regions that didn’t have domesticated animals at the time, still advanced greatly, just not as fast. Take the Incas for example. They only had one species of domesticable animal ( llamas ), and they technologically advanced pretty fast. They had a huge advantage over others in terms of numbers, the only problem was that they weren’t exposed to early epidemics.
Germs, along with agriculture and domestic animals, was responsible for some aspects of inequality in the world. Take the Incas and the Spaniards for example. When the Inca and
Spaniard’s conflict is looked over, a question arises: how did the Spaniards, an army of