Guns Germs and Steel

Title: Guns Germs and Steel
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Guns Germs and Steel

Book Review on Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? Or as Yali puts it in the far beginning of the book, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own”? Despite all the contrary evidence from anthropology and human biology, many persist in …showed first 75 words of 1035 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1035 total…I did not quite grasp, was the quick description of the Spaniards’ conquest of Mesoamerica; what exactly caused the Spaniards to capture the natives, since the natives were not a thread to them? Besides that, I believe Guns, Germs and Steel was a very well structured, extensively researched and superbly presented book. Reading this was actually a different experience, because it covers and explains in a nutshell how, when and why we are here today.

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