Gun Germs and Steel

During class we got our exam grades back and I got an 88 percent which isn't bad. But then after we got our exams and during while other people are getting theirs's back we started to look up what Gun, Germs, and Steel was. It is a story that was written by Jared Diamond who is a professor at UCLA. He is a training biologist and specialized in human physiology. But that wasn't busy enough so he decided to take a full passion in the study of birds. He liked to go to Papa New Guinea to look at the birds, and he went there so often that he learned the different languages that are spoken on that island by the low amount of people that speak them. 

In the story Gun, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond explains why some more materialized and geographically lucky continents are better at invading and conquering other continents. Some of these geographically lucky features are land, immunity to germs, food production, and the domestication of animals. Eurasia is a Geographically lucky area because they have a natural advantage in agriculture, and the presence of plants and animals that can be easily domesticated. Their populations also had diversity and that helped create an immunity to germs in their area. 

Throughout the story the major thought is that power is determined by your race. So white people were just more superior than people of color and there was no debating it. They thought this because when that island was invaded the white people had guns, and steel weapons, versus the colored people who only had spears and older weapons. So they basically had no chance.