“Guns, Germs, and Steel”, written by Jared Diamond is a study that shows and manages to explain the future or fates of a variety of people within human history. Jared Diamond strives to understand why certain groups of people have lasted for as long as they have or why they have failed to strive. Jared Diamond quotes in his book as “This is a study of history’s haves and have nots.”
This study also has a moral basis, as the writer must be fully aware that some people view equality based on biology, and how some classes of human beings are essentially inferior to others. Myself and the writer both agree and believe that this perspective is both incorrect and dangerous. This is one of the largest motivations in writing this book therefore to disprove this line of thought and provide a…show more content… However, the book explains how this form of epidemic allowed survivors to develop resistance against these germs strengthening the people. Benefits of this include the end of an attempted conquering in a community, because these attempts would be prevented by these diseases to which invaders had not developed resistance to. Also put in the book, those who had developed a form of resistance could transport these diseases abroad to use as a weapon during wars of conquest.
Wars of conquest are a major theme throughout this book, although, in many of the cases represented, they were not so much wars rather instances of a vanquishing of a group of hunter gatherers. Still, Diamond manages to draw attention to major historical moment involving colonization and conquest. One well known example being the conquest of the Americas in 1492 with smallpox killing many Native Americans. Diamond does look into such events across the five habitable continents, attempt to find out why some people triumphed more than
