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"Guns, Germs and Steel":
Jared Diamond on Geography as
Power
This video tries to address the reasons that some cultures are more advanced
than others. After you watch the video, answer the following questions.
(Remember, successful students read the questions ahead of time to help them
form organize answers.)
1. Why did history unfold differently on different continents? Why has one
culture—namely that of Western Europe—dominated the development of
the modern world?
2. Why over the past 10,000 years has the development of different
societies proceeded at such different rates?
3. Where did the first farming societies appear?
4. What were the benefits of the agricultural lifestyle compared to the