Analysis Of Guns, Germs, And Steel By Jared Diamond

At the beginning of chapter 13, he was in Baltimore with his friends and he had gotten the news that old master and a few others had died, he was moved away to his new home. He felt like in the slave master’s eyes they are no different than the cattle that they take care of. Frederick had a hard time leaving Baltimore because he had some friends/students that he taught and played with. When they were done with dividing they sent him to his new owners, the master was stingy and the mistress was cruel. They gave him and the other slaves just enough to survive, his hunger was so bad that he sometimes had to steal food (he was against any type of stealing at the time).

The Columbian Exchange was the movement of people, animals, goods, plants, diseases, and microorganism that occurred in the sixteenth century. The effects of The Columbian Exchange on early American society were extensive. One of the most devastating effects was the spreading of disease that killed around ninety percent of the Native American population. When Europeans came to the New World they brought with them diseases such as, “smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera”(document one). The native’s immune systems were not prepared to fight theses diseases and this lead to a catastrophic amount of fatalities.

In Episode three of Gun Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond, describes how the European settlers settled in the southern parts of the African continent. Many of the farms animals that the European people brought played very important roles in the process of colonizing. Over time the Europeans developed some kind of refusal against the germs that the livestock carried. The germs and diseases began to spread amongst the Khoisan people which resulted in killing their population. After that happened the European population enlarge in potential and proportions.

Chapter three of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond is a story about how Francisco Pizarro, the Conquistador, brought the end to the Inca civilization with only two hundred men. Diamond uses real accounts from six of the 200 men to tell what happened. The story goes like: Francisco Pizarro by order of the King to travel across New World and conquer the lands and riches for his nation. They had gathered information about an Incan Empire and soon sent their sights on capturing the Incans. The Spanish Conquistadores tried to the Incan leader, Atahuallpa, to convert to Christianity but it failed so Pizarro then captured Atahullpa.

When you think about who discovered the New World you most likely think Christopher Columbus. There is a huge controversy on who truly discovered the New World. Columbus didn’t actually mean to discover the New World, he was trying to avoid blocks so he went the other way and found the New World. A place where the Europeans have never seen. However if Columbus did he led Europe into the Age of Exploration.

Chapter 35 Another day, they continue their meeting to solve the issues at the plant. Ralph explain about the chemistry theory, then they discuss how chemists invented the periodic table of elements. How were they able to classify something so vast into one simple table? Maybe this is how they can approach the massive problems of their division. Those scientists began by observing vast chaos and gradually derived its underlying order.

Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel did not change my thinking of the human evolution because that is how I already felt about history. I believe that everything develops at their own speed because different places have different beliefs and have their own ways of evolving. Since I was born, my grandparents would take me with them to National Parks such as Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, and Crater Lake. Because of my grandparents, I became educated on many things concerning our nation’s history. I understood that some things couldn't happen at the same time as others because of how the land is different in other places. An example of how the United States is different across the country is simply the accents.

Technology was in the sense of equipment and tools brought over on boats by the explorers. It dependent on the origin of the explorer on what equipment was brought. The plow to help uproot the ground to plant the numerous plants and vegetables brought over. The Native Americans were not civilized as the Europeans and they lacked a lot of tools to mass produce buildings, houses, boats, and farm the lands. Diseases brought from the settlers such as smallpox killed many Native Americans.

He describes most people as living in “island communities”. This is where people tied each other to geography because they all knew each other. The ending of these “island communities” were because of migration, industrialization, and urbanization. He conveys that it caused people to want to reform their own new world. He finds that the reformers are divided among voluntary associations such as, cities, states, and the federal government.

On the other hand, Europeans didn’t have the same effect when they came in contact with these diseases. Exposed to the diseases at an early age, Europeans were mostly to fully immune. With the devastating effects of disease, native culture was starting to change. Persuaded that their native gods have abandoned them, many natives converted to Christianity. Forced by disease, natives usually married relatives that survived the diseases since appropriate partners were scarce.

However, the indigenous people have been in solitude when it comes to sickness. On paragraph 4 of the same document, it says “ By contrast, the people of the Americas had spent thousands of years in biological isolation. Their own distant ancestors had migrated from the Old World, crossing the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska . But they traveled in bands of several hundred at most. The microbes that cause measles, smallpox and other ‘crowd type’ diseases require pools of several million people to sustain themselves.

Pd.2 Compare and Contrast Yellow Fever Doctors In Philadelphia in 1793, a disease that filled the whole town with terror broke out and struck the world, yellow fever. The disease spread rapidly and killed an estimated 2,000-5,000 people. Long ago, the best doctors in America lived in Philadelphia during this epidemic disease. They studied yellow fever as best as they could with their prior knowledge from previous diseases.

Considering the future of the United States, Byrn brings up many inventions such as: the railway and telegraph, patents, house printing telegraphy, and so forth (Byrn 1896) that have made progress possible in the United States and has given an entitlement to the belief that through these certain inventions the human population is able to put a meaning to the world. Though Byrn argues that mankind is able to get this thought about development it has not always started with humans. He brings up the thought that the development that has happened so far in history is only a building ladder that was set by God. For instance, Byrn states, “The old word of

In modern society, guns are seen as a form of control. Those who have guns are able to overpower those who do not. This trend was set when guns were first invented and has stayed the same throughout history. The one place where guns are not a symbol of power and control is in literature, specifically “The Old Gun” and Hamilton. In Mo Yan’s short story “The Old Gun”, the protagonist is a hungry boy who does not even know how to use the titular firearm.

He viewed that civilization and technological process go hand in hand