Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel

• Europeans dominate the world
• Jarred Diamond- traveled the world to explore the roots of the world, the have/have not- some people have some things and some people do not have things. He is a professor at UCLA, biologist, specialist in Human physiology, author, and bird watcher. He is at Papua New Guinea to discover the inequalities of the world and get a better understanding of how it got to be that way.
• people have been living in New Guinea for 40,000 years and their lifestyle is still a hunter/gatherer living
• Yali, a man who Diamond met on a beach when he arrived at New Guinea, said, "Why do you white men have so much cargo and us Guineans have so little?"
• Cargo- material possessions; evidence of white man's power
• Europeans believe power is defined by race and that they are more superior
• Three characteristics of great civilization- advanced technology, large populations, and a well organized work force.
• Prehistoric- before things were written down
• 13,000 years ago- middle east- hunter/gatherer lifestyle