Jared Diamond Guns Germs And Steel Analysis

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes this whole novel to answering Yali’s question from the perspective of a biologies. He relates Yali’s question to the world as a whole rather than just limiting it to Europe and New Guinea. Diamond also starts his book way in the begin of human existence. …show more content…
A strong argument that is given marey in Diamonds novel is when he talks about germs and how they played a key rule in how eurasia became a super power of a continent in today's world. So early humans kept their animals in the house where they lived. Therefor they were constantly exposed to the animals and their filth. This would cause strong illnesses to come from the poor cleaning habits. For this reason these people to gain a boost in the amount of illnesses that they would become resistant to. Later on when people for Eurasia began to take over large parts of land they would bring these illnesses with them. This would help these people to wipe out other populations of people because those people were less exposed to those animals and the illnesses that they produce. So their immune systems would have a harder time fighting off these germs. Also these germs would spread to place that the Eurasians had not yet been. This would lead to the wiping-out of different tribes of indians who had never even been in contact with the Eurasians. This is just another advantage that was given to those people who were lucky enough to live in