Guns, Germs, and Steel

• This video is about how guns, germs, and steel shaped history and why history became so unequal.
• Dimond is looking in Papua New Guinea to look for answers.
• Dimond is a biologist in training and is a professional in human physiology
• He is trying to fin out why the people of new Guinea are so much poorer than modern Americans
• When items were brought to new guinea by westerners the people of New Guinea were amazed and treated the items as religion items.
• All advanced civilizations had some things in common.
• large population
• advanced technology
• organized workforce
• Dimond went back thousands of years to when all people were about similar technologically speaking
• People lived as hunter gatherers in the middle east when the Earth was warming after the ice age. The middle east was not as arid.
• In New Guinea, Gathering is done by women and hunting is done by men.
• The reason people in New Guinea may be so underdeveloped is because of their environment.
• Wheat from grass in the middle east could have been a factor to set humanity on track.
• The ice age then started to return and herds of animals died and the middle east suffered an environmental collapse because the middle east got colder and drier.
• The first permanent villages were in the middle east.