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Guns Germs And Steel Chapter 13 Analysis

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Yali's question can be used as a basis for understanding and explaining world history because it allows us to reevaluate and break down our previous evolutionary causes in order for us to grasp the outcomes of today. Diamond begins breaking it down by bringing into context our differences between technology, politics, geography, diseases, weapons, and people since A.D. 1500. In the beginning of his prologue he writes," Of course, technological and political differences of A.D. 1500 were the immediate cause of modern world inequalities. Empires with steel weapons were able to conquer or exterminate tribes weapons of stone and wood" (Diamond, 15). This excerpt signifies that places such as Aboriginal Australia and many Native Americans have

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