Essays on Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-winning “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, is an unquestionable contribution to debates attempting to explain global economic inequalities through detailed historical narratives. A ponderous recollection of seemingly dense but important details, the book offers the reader and extremely in-depth...

Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-winning “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, is an unquestionable contribution to debates attempting to explain global economic inequalities through detailed historical narratives. A ponderous recollection of seemingly dense but important details, the book offers the reader and extremely in-depth...

Despite being outnumbered, the Spanish army under the command of Francisco Pizarro managed to conquer other bigger armies like the Incan empire. Jared Diamond refers to the Spanish as “accidental conquerors” and proceeds to explain his reasons. Firstly, he states that their geographical location is...

History of humankind is consisted of conquest and exploration. Mostly, Western European countries possessed enormous amount of wealth and power, while people in Africa and South America stayed rather behind. So why exactly did humans on different continents develop at such different rates? Although the...

Jared Diamond’s book Guns, Germs, and Steel asks the question, “Why did Europe & Asia conquer other regions of the world instead of the other way around?” In the past, some scholars have taken the racist approach and implied that the answer lies in Eurasians...

Hundreds of thousands of years, humans found themselves in a world of an endlessconflicts caused mainly because religious, economical or political reasons. The sence ofwar is indeed a human nature to survive and to grow. Roughly five thousands years beforechrist, humans discovered metals burried underneeth...

It is human nature to want to explain the unexplainable, to understand how and why things happen. Theories ranging from topics of evolution to dark matter to cognitive behavior look to explain how aspects of the world function. Similarly, geographers look to understand exactly how...

Guns, Germs, And Steel “The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared M. Diamond, is a non-fictional historical book published in 1997 with roughly 480 pages. In Guns, Germs, and steel Diamond takes us through the journey in which the way society was built, he stresses...

In Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author shares his hypothesis for why some parts of the world are not as technologically advanced as others. Diamond argues that the shortcomings of one society compared to another in development are a result of less than...

Jared Diamond’s theory about the reason civilizations rose above others in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society is an effective statement with the proper reasoning to support it. Other historians have supported this statement by the sole fact that the Spanish as...

Jared Diamond’s book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies takes readers on a whirlwind tour of human history from our origins in Africa up until today. The book tries to explain why such large socioeconomic disparities exist between people around the world...

Abstract Jared Diamond’s Gun, Germs and Steel won the Pulitzer Prize and the British Popular Science Book Award in 1998. This book points out that the environment has a great influence on human history and negates the theory of human determinism. Starting with the capture...

The book I had chosen for this very intense assignment was “Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies”, which was published in 2005 by “Norton” in New York. It has, including the index, 494 pages. The assignment stated to pick any 6...

Jared Diamond was born September 10th, 1937. He’s written several books, such as The Third Chimpanzee and The World Until Yesterday. He was born from two Jewish, Eastern European immigrants in Boston. After graduating from Cambridge, he became a professor of physiology at UCLA. However,...

“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black had little cargo of our own?” Professor Jared Diamond attempted to answer this question asked by a New Guinean politician, Yali, in his film Guns,...

Guns, Germs, and Steel sets out to tell the history for the last 13,000 years. It also aims to explain why some societies were much more successful than others. Some of this success can be given to population growth, immunity to germs, and animal domestication....