Yali's question is why Europeans have so many more
material goods than other peoples. This is caused in part by the fact that the
Europeans were able to conquer other peoples and exploit their resources. This ability
was caused in large part by the fact that Europeans had
"germs."
Many infectious diseases had evolved in Eurasia
because of the fact that large animals had been domesticated there for a long time.
Eurasians developed resistance to these diseases, but peoples from other continents did
not. This meant that those people were killed in large numbers by European diseases
when they were exposed to those diseases.
The germs helped
the Europeans conquer and this helped give them more resources than people from other
continents had. This is how germs help to answer Yali's
question.
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