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    Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
    Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
    Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
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    Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.

    Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
     
    This short summary and analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond includes:
     
    • Historical context
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    About Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond:
     
    Professor Jared Diamond’s informative and fascinating Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs, and Steel explores a historic question: Why were the Eurasian peoples able to dominate those from other lands?
     
    Diamond argues that it was ecology and geography—not race—that shaped the modern world. Societies that developed in regions with fertile land for farming and that had domesticable plants and animals were able to progress more quickly, thereby creating the tools to conquer preliterate cultures.
     
    Drawing on a variety of disciplines—from linguistics, genetics, and epidemiology to biology, anthropology, and technology—Guns, Germs, and Steel offers an eloquently argued view of the development of human societies.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781504043106
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      Context

      Jared Diamond wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel partly to refute familiar, racist explanations for the political and cultural dominance of European and Asian societies over others. According to Diamond, the old rhetoric of civilized people (usually Eurasians) versus savages (usually non-Eurasian indigenous peoples) was fallacious.

      In a 2004 interview with PBS, the fundamental question Diamond was looking to address was why history unfolded differently on the different continents over the last 13 thousand years.

      In his search for the ultimate causes of Eurasian dominance, Diamond chose to focus on two often-overlooked areas of history: the history of non-Eurasian native societies, and human history before 3000 BCE. The prehistory of indigenous societies, argued Diamond, can shed light on the deeper reasons for modern history’s course. Guns, Germs, and Steel, published in 1997, offered a new perspective on human history, one that placed geography and ecology, rather than biology, at the forefront of human history.

      The book has since been translated into more than twenty-five languages, has sold millions of copies, inspired a three-hour program produced by National Geographic and PBS, and won a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

      With the success of this work, and his impressive decades-long background in research and academia, Jared Diamond is now revered by many as a thought leader beyond the spheres of societal evolution, anthropology, geology, and the history of innovation. He is a sought-after speaker who can be found addressing non-academic audiences from a variety of platforms, including TED Talks, the Long Now Foundation, Talks at Google, and at a diverse range of schools and institutions.

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      When Spanish conquistadors first came to the New World, they did not find empty wilderness: There were millions of people there, with distinct languages and cultures. The Spanish were vastly outnumbered and totally isolated; interlopers in a foreign place. When General Francisco Pizarro encountered the Inca

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