Guns Germs And Steel Analysis

Guns, Germs, and Steel, a three-part documentary based on Jared Diamond’s book takes us on a journey of a lifetime as we explore the world’s development overtime. When Diamond sought out to find the answers he was looking for and to write his book, he met a man named Yali who asked him, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people have little cargo of our own?” When asked this, Jared Diamond thought that the answer was simple, but at the time, he could not give Yali the answer he was looking for.
Typically, most people from New Guinea saw the “white man's cargo” as material things and feared that it represented power. These manufactured goods sometimes described the power that the white man had over the New Guneanins. To answer Yali’s question, Jared tries to explain to Yali that it is not because of the racial differences in the world. The differences between the histories of people is not because of the color of their skin or religion but simply the environment that they live in. The flora and fauna of region can have a direct impact on the progression of a society. …show more content…
In a hunter gatherer society, you would have to go out and get food constantly in order to survive. You would also not be able to live in large groups. If you were to live in a farming society, you would have the ability to domesticate plants and animals, which leads to increase in food supply. With an increased food supply, you would have enough food to properly sustain larger groups of people. Crops allowed agriculture based societies to form and the world’s population to grow. With the new ways to produce food, the societies ran into trouble when it came to preserving what food they