Guns Germs And Steel Analysis

The first episode of the documentary Guns, Germs, & Steel is about a man name Jared Diamond who is trying to figure out the answer to a perplexing question .While doing broad field work in New Guinea Jared Diamond new Guinean companion Yali asked the question “to why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we have little cargo of our own?” .Jared Diamond understood that Yali's question touched the heart of an incredible puzzle of mankind's history as to why the world is so imbalanced. Why were Europeans the ones with all the load? Why had they assumed control such an extensive amount of the world, rather than the local individuals of New Guinea? This is the main argument proposed by Jared Diamond. He concluded that the answer …show more content…
What mattered were the raw materials themselves. Of all the plant species on the planet, just a predetermined number are conceivable, or valuable, to tame. To Diamond's amazement, the vast majority of these species are local to Europe ,Asia and the Middle East species like wheat, grain and rice, which developed wild in wealth in just these parts of the world. Diamond also discovers a similar dramatic inequality in the distribution of domesticable animals such as goats, sheep’s, cows, and ox’s. These animals drastically expand the efficiency of cultivating, through their meat, milk, cowhide, and waste. Without them, farmers are caught in a cycle of subsistence and difficult work. With the domesticating of these animals farming became easier and farmers were able to grow more food providing a food surplus, this allowed some people to leave the farm behind and develop specialized skills such as, writing, inventing, and artistry. Being that the root of all this prosperity, the Fertile Crescent was landlocked it made it easier for technologies and ideas to spread beyond its origin. Since places like Europe and Asia was on the same latitude they were able to reap the blessing with