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| According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world’s “haves” from the “have nots”? | show 🗑
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| Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less than Americans.Diamond developed a theory and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give ex. | show 🗑
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| show | People interfere with in nature by planting and harvesting at specifi c times, choosing only the biggest, tastiest, easy to harvest seeds from the crops, and selecting individual plants for use in breeding the next year’s crops to increase the harvest.
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| show | breeding animals for use as meat & their milk as well as providing skins for clothing, using the animals for plowing, & transport. Also, animals were important to farming because they could provide the fields with fertilizer at the same time.
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| show | llama-South America, Asia, North Africa, and Europe had the others: goats,
sheep, pigs, cows, horses, donkeys, camels, water buffalo, reindeer, yaks, nithans, and cattle.
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| show | domesticated animals led to greater productivity, and the majority of these domesticable animals were native to the temperate climates of the world where the most powerful civilizations developed.
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| show | The Fertile Crescent -dry climate & a fragile environment. The people did not have conservation methods. they over-exploited the land & environment.The land could no longer support them. Middle East had same latitude as eurasia, which allowed them to live
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| Do you agree with Jared Diamond when he says of a civilizations ability to gain power, wealth, and strength, “…what’s far more important is the hand that people have been dealt, the raw materials they’ve had at their disposal.” Why or why not? | show 🗑
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| According to Jared Diamond, what is the one factor that allowed Europeans to develop the forces necessary to conquer vast portions of the world? | show 🗑
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| show | temperature and climate in the South African cape is nearly the same as what the Europeans had at home. Because the Cape and Europe have similar latitude, they can grow the same types of crops and raise the same types of livestock in Africa just like home
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| How did disease allow the Europeans to conquer the native populations in the Americas and in the African cape? | show 🗑
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| Europeans suffered from the germs native to this part of the world. Describe how these germs worked against the Europeans. | show 🗑
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| show | Africans developed immunity to Smallpox through repeated exposure & vaccinations that could provide immunity for life & Africans knew how to avoid diseases like Malaria by preventing infection:
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| show | by choosing to live in high, dry areas where the mosquitoes did not typically live. b/c Africans lived in small communities spread out , they minimized the transmission. European lived in areas with great exposure malaria.
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| show | B/c Europeans forced the native Africans out of their villages & into cities and large, crowded communities to mine & ferry natural resources, & took economic & social systems away from these people. people together where diseases are easily spread...
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| show | native populations lost the immunity to these diseases. b/c the disease mutated, drugs = less effective. there are high numbers of people infected with & dying from diseases like Malaria. also, HIV/AIDS spread more easily b/c of many people together
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| What is the number one public health problem in Zambia, and who are the people primarily affected by this? | show 🗑
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| How has disease contributed to the poverty in many African countries such as Zambia? | show 🗑
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| According to statistics from the film, how has Malaria effected the net growth in Africa over the last 50 years? | show 🗑
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| show | horses that made them appear like god-like half
man, half beast warriors, body armor, guns, and steel swords.
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| show | B/c Europe is geographically close to the Fertile Crescent, they inherited the 7,000 years of metal technology developed there. B/c of a diversified society that allowed for specialization,Spanish devoted time & effort producing long, strong, sharp swords
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| show | Spaniards begin by surprising the Incas, firing their guns & coming out of hiding on horseback. As they rode, the conquistadors used their swords to hack, cut, & stab the Incas who were panicking & fleeing rather than standing firm.
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| show | If Incas knew more about this style of fighting, they could have been victorious by sheer numbers if they had stood their ground.
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| show | Because of their geographic location and history, the Europeans were the first to acquire guns, germs, and steel, therefore they could conquer other lesser developed civilizations.
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