In the video Jared Diamond is a specialist in Human Physiology and is embarking on an adventure to learn how Guns, Germs and Steel were used in advantage for civilizations of the future to become so much more powerful then others.
Diamond has started in the Rainforest and brought up a very interesting idea for discussion, New Guineans are among the most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world: so why are the so poor compared to modern Americans?
This question requires us to go back to the beginning of time, how did great super powers of civilization like the Mayas, Greeks, Romans & Egyptians advance so much and other civilizations were lost to history?
To find this answer, Diamond set back the clock to 1300 years ago, when everyone was equal and all lived in small hunter gather groups. However after an archeologist find of one of the first villages in history they realized that these people were beginning to settle and live together and in this village there was a room: inside this room its believed to have had a way that these people kept grains and other types of food concealed from germs, insect & moister.
Diamonds answer: the crops & animals. He believes that origin to success starts in the Fertile Crescent and the spreading of crops and animals on the x/y axis of the land, spread to places like Egypt and Greece, and boosted the economies and civilizations
Diamond has started in the Rainforest and brought up a very interesting idea for discussion, New Guineans are among the most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world: so why are the so poor compared to modern Americans?
This question requires us to go back to the beginning of time, how did great super powers of civilization like the Mayas, Greeks, Romans & Egyptians advance so much and other civilizations were lost to history?
To find this answer, Diamond set back the clock to 1300 years ago, when everyone was equal and all lived in small hunter gather groups. However after an archeologist find of one of the first villages in history they realized that these people were beginning to settle and live together and in this village there was a room: inside this room its believed to have had a way that these people kept grains and other types of food concealed from germs, insect & moister.
Diamonds answer: the crops & animals. He believes that origin to success starts in the Fertile Crescent and the spreading of crops and animals on the x/y axis of the land, spread to places like Egypt and Greece, and boosted the economies and civilizations
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