Friday, February 10, 2012

Guns Germs and Steel 2.10.12

You are watching Guns Germs and Steel

Answer the following questions.

1. Who is Jared Diamond?
2. What question was posed to Jared that led him to his research about successful cultures?
3. What are the key factors to being a winning culture? according to Jared.
4. Give 2 examples of winners and 2 examples of losers based on Jared's factors
5. Disease has been a major selective pressure influencing human evolution. According to Jared how did these diseases come to infect

1. Jarod Diamond is a scientist. Specialist in human physiology.
2. Why do white people have so much cargo, but we New Guineans have so little?
3. The key factors of being a winning culture is where you geographically. If you're in a place where there's a good environmnt and crops can grow then you can sell to other culture and as well as domestic animals.
4. Winners were the Middle East becausd of geographically and domesticated animals as well azs the New Guineans. The losers were hunter and gatherers.
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