Guns, Germs, and Steel Part 1 (New Guineans)

Today in class, we reviewed the midterm exam and talked about guns, germs, and steel. I got a good grade on the midterm. We also took notes on guns, germs, and roses. We will finish the video and note-taking in 3 days. Below are the notes from today's video part.

• Jared Diamond is the author of the book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
• Some areas (Europe) with faster developments had an advantage when it came to making steel weapons.
• In Europe, the diseases at this time of the book were smallpox and the Bubonic disease,
• Jared Diamond's quest started in the Papua New Guinea.
• Diamond's a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, California and started as a biologist (his real passion is birds).
• Diamond uses the native language mixed with English.
• Yali is a native who meets Jared Diamond.
• Yali asks, "Why do you have so much cargo, and we have very little?" He's not angry, just wondering.
• The natives put the colonials cargo on their heads.
• The colonials believe that power is determined by race.
• The colonials believe that they are smarter and more superior, but the natives are smarter (in my opinion).
• Colonials started putting the natives to work right after they go there; they use them like slaves.
• The natives can build shelters quickly without using fancy tools.