Wednesday, July 24, 2013

According to Guns, Germs, and Steel, what does the following have to do with the fates of human societies?According to diamond agricultural...

What this has to do with the fate of human society is that
it did a great deal to help Eurasian societies to have advantages over other societies
in the form of guns, germs, and steel.


Because Eurasia had
a long east-west axis, the invention of agriculture could diffuse.  This meant that many
civilizations could spring up instead of only a few, isolated ones.  The fact that there
were many civilizations meant that they could all invent various things and then trade
them with one another.  This meant that they moved ahead much more quickly than any
isolated society could.


So, diffusion led to the presence
of more civilizations.  More civilizations led to more innovation and sharing of
innovations.  These things led to advantages in technology as well as to the presence of
epidemic diseases.  The technology and the diseases helped the Eurasians conquer other
societies in modern times.

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