Guns Germs and Steel
“Why you white man have so much cargo and us New Guineans have so little?” This is the question Yali asked Jared Diamond a University of California Los Angeles professor. This sparked Jared Diamond to answer this question by turning back the clocks of time to an era where everyone lived the same. This is the beginnings of Diamond’s ground breaking and heartwarming three- part documentary called “Guns, Germs, and Steel.” This documentary goes deep into history and answers the main question of, “How did our worlds become so different?” Jared Diamond takes on the challenge most philosophers wouldn’t dare try of dividing the haves and have-nots of the world. His journey began in the forests of Papua New Guinea. As of 30 years ago, they were still using some of the techniques used in the Stone Age. People hunted by tracking their prey and used bow and arrows. Their main source of food was the Sago tree; this only provided about 70 pounds of food and did not provide the nutrients needed to survive. Women did most of the gathering and processed the pulp taken out of the Sago tree.
This belief all start when he began to look back on the time when the world was once equal. This was back thirteen thousand years ago after the first ice age when people where still basing their living off of hunting and gathering. This time period began known as the Stone Age. There were very little resources during this time, and the hunting and gathering just wasn’t enough. The villages had to remain small in order for the people already there would be able to survive, and they spent most of their time constantly looking for food. When they weren’t able to find food they would resort to eating large spiders and other insects, which wasn’t much of a difference because even when they did find food it was the insides of the tree for its pulp which was hardly enough to keep them energized. This discovery for Diamond was simple; when the world was equal the whole world was living in
This belief all start when he began to look back on the time when the world was once equal. This was back thirteen thousand years ago after the first ice age when people where still basing their living off of hunting and gathering. This time period began known as the Stone Age. There were very little resources during this time, and the hunting and gathering just wasn’t enough. The villages had to remain small in order for the people already there would be able to survive, and they spent most of their time constantly looking for food. When they weren’t able to find food they would resort to eating large spiders and other insects, which wasn’t much of a difference because even when they did find food it was the insides of the tree for its pulp which was hardly enough to keep them energized. This discovery for Diamond was simple; when the world was equal the whole world was living in