"Guns, Germs and Steel"

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This paper focuses on Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" and his explanations of how and why the modern world has developed the way it has. It looks at how it discusses the history of domestication in both plants and animals, world trade and disease, technology and advanced weaponry, and climates and specific ecosystems.

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" Diamond lists and explains the 'major five' and the 'minor nine' large domesticated herbivorous mammals, along with their ancestors and where they originated. The major five include sheep, goat, cow, pig, and horse. Sheep and goat originated in West Asia, cow and pig in Eurasia and North Africa, and the horse from southern Russia. The minor nine include Arabian and Bactrian camel, llama, donkey, reindeer, water buffalo, yak, Bali cattle, and mithan. One may ask why so many animals were domesticated in so few places, and the answer is partially knowledge of domestication, and the other is availability of animals. Some places like Australia were only left with one or a few candidates for domestication after the great extinction of the mega fauna."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York. 1999. Paperback.

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