Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Worth Books

Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Worth Books

Author:Worth Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worth Books
Published: 2016-10-24T22:09:11+00:00


Chapter Seventeen: Speedboat to Polynesia

Diamond jumps back more than one thousand years, to what he believes was the start of an Austronesian expansion from South China through Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and all the way to the Polynesian Islands. However, the Austronesians were unable to colonize New Guinea and Australia.

Chapter Eighteen: Hemispheres Colliding

We return to the collision at Cajamarca between Pizarro and the Inca emperor Atahuallpa. We can see now that Pizarro’s victory over Atahuallpa—and, by extension, Europe’s conquest of the Americas—was the culmination of two separate historical trajectories that determined thousands of years previously by environmental differences between Eurasia and the Americas.



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