Transcript Guns, Germs, and Steel - Collierville High School

Guns, Germs, and Steel
What are the two biggest factors in
Guns, Germs, and Steel?
• Is it genetic superiority?
• Is it superior intellect?
Location and Timing
• 1. Jot down 2 ways in which location can be considered
important in history.
• 2. Jot down 2 ways in which timing can be important in
history.
• We are going to look at 3 different ways in which
location and timing affected world history according to
G,G,S
I. Polynesian Society
• Where is Polynesia?
• What factors contributed to differences among
Polynesian societies?
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1. Climate
2. Geological type
3. Marine resources
4. Area
5. Terrain fragmentation
– What is this?
• 6. Isolation
• HOW DID EACH FACTOR PLAY A ROLE?
Why were the Maori able to easily
defeat the Moriori?
Maori vs Moriori
• More warlike
• Why?
– Chatham Island is colder
– PROBLEM?
II. Cajamarca
• Who were the Inca?
• Where were they located?
• How were they an advanced society?
How is their mummification
process different from the
Egyptians?
Thoughts on Spanish
• Atahualpa did not think they were gods
– “The intelligence reports speak of people wearing wool
on their faces like an alpaca. They’re just like an animal.
……….wearing on top of their heads a little pot that has
never been used for cooking. You need to be crazy to
walk with a pot and not use it for cooking. ….sub
humans. What could a few horsemen and a 100 or so
Spaniards do to the powerful Inca? Virtually nothing”
• How does this compare to the account you read last
night?
• Why do you think they differ?
Thoughts on Incas
• From your reading last night, what did the
Spanish think of the Inca before the fighting
began?
Spanish conquest
• If the Inca were so advanced and far out numbered
the Spanish how were they conquered?
• What are the 4 advantages the Spanish had?
Advantages
• 1. Weapons
– Guns and steel
• 2. Germs
– How might germs have played a role in the African slave trade?
– How did animals play a role in this?
• 3. Timing
– How did this play a role? Sound familiar?
– What if they would have encountered them 10 years earlier?
• 4. What animal?
• WHY WERE THESE ADVANTAGES?
Do you think the three paintings/drawings would be the same if the Inca had
depicted the same events? Why or why not? How would they have been
different?
Factors involved in domesticating
crops
• 1. What are the 6 factors that determine if a crop will
be domesticated or not?
– Exp Size
• 2. What are the 12 blockbuster crops?
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• 3. What are the 5 factors that determine if an animal
will be domesticated or not?
– Exp big enough for work
• 4. What are the 14 animals that met the requirements
for domestication?
Crop domestication
• 1. Size
• 2. Fibrous
• 3. Annual
– Why is this better than a perennial in many cases?
• 4. Productivity
• 5. Easy to grow
• 6. Taste (bitter or poisonous?
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1. Wheat (einkorn and emmer)
2. Rice
3. Barley
4. Corn (Maize)
5. Cassava (manioc or yuca)
6. Potato (tuber)
7. Sugar cane
8. Sugar beet
9. Banana
10. Soybean
11. Sorghum
12. Sweet potato
Animal domestication
• 1. Reproduce early (1st or 2nd year)
• 2. Reproduce yearly/regularly
• 3. Get along with humans and in groups
• 4. Big enough for work (over 100lbs)
• 5. Easy to control (control leader-control herd)
Domesticated animals
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1. Horse
2. Pig
3. Cow
4. Sheep
5. Goat
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6. Llama (Alpaca)
7. Reindeer
8. Bali Cattle
9. Arabian Camel
10. Bactrian Camel (2 hump)
11. Donkey
12. Yak
13. Mithan (Ox)
14. Water Buffalo
Location
• Advantages
• 1. Most found in
• Europe, Asia, N Africa
– Big 5 found in ME
– None found in NA, SubSaharan Africa, Australia
– SA only the llama
• 2. Diseases
– Get immunity
Why is a East/West axis better than a
North/South Axis?
Homework
• Write a thesis statement based on the following
prompt:
• How did location OR timing play a role in world
history according to the book Guns, Germs, and
Steel?