Essays on Guns, Germs and Steel
The non-fiction novel, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, thoroughly explains why powerful countries became powerful over poor, third world countries. In the first part of the book, Diamond explains to us Yali’s question. Yali was a politician that lived in New Guinea and he asked Jared, “Why is it that you white people...
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 the world came to be; how does the environment and...
“Guns, Germs, and Steel” is an intriguing and thought-provoking read by Jared Diamond. The scholarly work of Jared Diamond is a highly recommended read as it examines an urgent issue – Why did history unfold differently on different continents. Specifically, why were Europeans the ones dominating the rest of the world? Why are there differences...