Jared Mason Diamond, American scientist and now author, wrote the novel "Guns, Germs and Steel". He has also authored many other works illustrating the intriguing nature of the scientific world.
In APA format, the citation for Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" would be: Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Disease, bad crops, lack of livestock.
Read the book: "Guns, Germs and Steel". The Fates of Human Societies is in a 1997 book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA.
In his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond argues that geography, domesticable plants and animals, and access to technology are the three major elements that have historically separated societies that have prospered (the "haves") from those that have not (the "have-nots").
An extremely interesting book on world history is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Unfortunately, it will not give you the "one fact after another" that you might be after, but it instead provides an possible explanation for why societies turned out the way they did.
The answer to the first discussion question, Yali's question, can be found on page 16 in the prologue. The questions are in chronological order and are easy to answer if you read the book and the questions simultaneously.
what are the other commonly esposed answers to "yali's question," and how doe Jared diamond addres and refute each of them?
alot, first u need powder, then u need guns, germs, and steel, then if u read a book and eat a waffle, u can do this crap yourself :)
The theme of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is the idea that geographic and environmental factors played a crucial role in shaping the course of human history, leading to certain regions becoming dominant over others. The book explores how factors like agriculture, technology, and disease transmission influenced the development of civilizations around the world.
Read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. It's a Pulitzer Prize winning book and well worth it, I can personally tell you. I cannot answer this question better than he can, and definitely not in such a short space. That book will tell you.
Complex societies are controlled by kleptocracies, who try to gain public support, even though the public is being robbed. To help with this process, religion was evolved which helped justify the leaders power.
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