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Guns, Germs, and Steel essay on the documentary with Jarrett Diamond...

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Guns, Germs, and Steel As a biologist in New Guinea, with a passion for birds and how they evolved, Professor Jared Diamond amalgamated with the natives of New Guinea, learning most of what he knew about birds from the natives. One day, in the month of July, Diamond, deep in thought as to how Guns, Germs, and Steel shape the world, separating the haves and the have nots, Professor Jared Diamond was asked by a native, named Yali, “Why is it that you white man have much more cargo, but we black people have little cargo?” Exploring the division of the world and how Europeans colonized New Guinea nearly 200 years ago, Diamond, argued that origins of inequalities. how some people came to dominate other people, may this not seem to justify the domination? Indigenous peoples all over the Earth, close to 11,000 years ago were hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherers couldn’t produce that of which farmers produced. The Fertile Crescent in the Middle East, and it’s “agriculturally productive” climate, produced the most nutritious crops around the Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile rivers. Barley, rye, and wheat were main crops the inhabitants consumed for stronger and healthier lives. Perfect for the domesticating of crops, The Fertile Crescent was also a perfect home to animals. Domestication of crops, natives interacting with nature, planting and harvesting seasonally, selecting the best tasting, healthy in size, and easy to harvest seeds from crops. Livestock, and/or the domestication of animals, also played a significant factor in the inequalities of conquer and divide. Animals provided food, clothing, and were considered productive, agricultural tools.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1 re-enlightened me on a great deal of some things I read about before. The film alone was. The Fertile Crescent and the information relative on its history, as well as Jared Diamond’s voyages in New Guinea. The film brought a vivid understanding of how colonization has, and still is behind the rule for power and the inequalities of European nations. Knowledge of Europeans amalgamating with domesticated animals I also was aware of, as to one of the major reasons diseases have spread today. This result is the genocide brought against the indigenous inhabitants of all areas of the world, including the Western hemisphere. The steel, being the guns used with force to coerce and by any means exterminate the natives from the land—divide and conquer....