PDF-[READ]-Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent yearsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on raceIn this artful informative and delightful William H McNeill New York Review of Books book Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the huntergatherer stage and then developed writing technology government and organized religionas well as nasty germs and potent weapons of warand adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures A major advance in our understanding of human societies Guns Germs and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human historyWinner of the Pulitzer Prize the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science the RhonePoulenc Prize and the Commonwealth Club of Californias Gold Medal. Please get out your worksheets!. We will go over this after the video.. I may call on anyone randomly, so please be prepared! . . Motivations for Imperialism. Entry Task. Based on Guns Germs & Steel – Episode 3,. What are some common illnesses around your home and school? What symptoms alert you to the fact that you or someone else might be sick?. z. GERM QUIZ. Which item has the most germs?. A. Handbag (purse). Written by Jared Diamond. Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London. Copyright 1999, 1997. E. Napp. Yali’s Question. Diamond’s book begins with a question posed by a local politician from the tropical island of New Guinea. The Mesolithic Age. The . Mesolithic Age. (Middle Stone Age) went from 12,000-8,000 BCE.. Major changes included the ability to shape and sharpen stone tools, make needles out of bone, etc. . More animals were domesticated, like cows.. Human. Behavioral Ecology. Evolutionary . Psychology. Hay Day. 1960s. 1970s. 1990 - . 1990 - . Focus on. Universals;. Continuity with Animals. Universals;. . Function. Variation & Diversity. ;. Function. Chapter 6. I. Early Societies of . MesoAmerica. Major Pre-Columbian Civilizations. Early Mesoamerican societies . 1200 BCE – 1100 CE. The . Olmecs. 1. Early Agriculture in Mesoamerica . 8000-7000bce. Louis Pasteur. Thomas Edison. Inventors & Innovators . James Watt. “Father of Industrial Revolution”. From Great Britain. He was the world’s first engineer.. James Watt invents the steam engine. This image is courtesy of forcechange.com. Good debaters use stories and anecdotes to support their argument.. These stories are in a lot of newspaper and magazine articles that you will read online. . GUNS,GERMS,ANDSTEELdenlyfoundthemselvesface-to-facewiththeirvictimÕsrelatives.Forexam-ple,oneFayumanspottedthemanwhohadkilledhisfather.Thesonraisedhisaxandrushedatthemurdererbutwaswrestledtotheground \'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.\'Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.In this artful, informative, and delightful (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California\'s Gold Medal Hace trece mil anos la evolucion de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzo a tomar rumbos diferentes. La domesticacion de los animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en China, Mesoamerica y otras zonas geograficas otorgaron una ventaja inicial a los habitantes de esas regiones.Sin embargo, los origenes localizados de la agricultura y la ganaderia son solo parte de la explicacion de los diferentes destinos de los pueblos. Las sociedades que superaron esta fase de cazadores-recolectores se encontraron con mas posibilidades para desarrollar la escritura, la tecnologia o las estructuras politicas ademas de sobrevivir a germenes nocivos y crear poderosas armas belicas.En este libro, el profesor Jared Diamond demuestra que la diversidad cultural hunde sus raices en las diferencias geograficas, ecologicas y territoriales ligadas a cada caso concreto, y analiza como evoluciono la humanidad y por que unos pueblos avanzaron hacia la civilizacion mientras que otros se quedaron estancados.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history.Bill GatesIn this artful, informative, and delightful (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California\'s Gold Medal. For use in schools and libraries only. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history\'s broadest patterns. Reissue. Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist\'s answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. For use in schools and libraries only. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history\'s broadest patterns. Reissue.