Jared Diamond Essay Examples

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An Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (522 words, 1 pages)

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond has a clear focus, seeking and convincingly providing the answer to the question "why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?" In other words, why did Columbus discover America and Pizarro conquer the Incas rather than the Inca "discovering" ... Read More

An Analysis of the Book, Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (1018 words, 2 pages)

Why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world? Or as Yali puts it in the far beginning of the book, Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of ... Read More

The Importance of Food Production, Diet, and Domestication of Mammals in Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel (522 words, 1 pages)

An Analysis of the Importance of Epidemic Diseases in Both Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond and the Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark (814 words, 2 pages)

Both Guns, Germs, and Steel written by Jared Diamond and The Rise of Christianity written by Rodney Stark stress the importance of epidemic diseases to explain social change. Stark and Diamond explain the importance of epidemics and diseases in their own way. Stark concentrates on the expansion of Christianity and ... Read More

“Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond: A Comparison of the Rates of Development of Europe and New Guinea (1996 words, 3 pages)

Throughout history, rates at which civilization developed varied greatly from continent to continent. This variance in development can be seen today in almost any country of the world. Take for example, the comparison of the United States (a world super-power), to any less developed, third-world country. Clearly, no third-world country ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013