ENV S 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-19: Guns, Germs, And Steel, Guerrilla Warfare, Common Chimpanzee
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Chapter 1: up to the starting line: starting point from which to compare historical developments is around 11,000 bc, beginnings of village life in a few parts of the world, the first peopling of the. Europeans" colonizing europe: immediate reasons for his success included, military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses, infectious diseases endemic in eurasia, european maritime technology, centralized political organization of european states, writing. Part two: the rise and spread of food production. Part three: from food to guns, germs, and steel. Part four: around the world in five chapters. Chapter 15: yali"s people: australia provides a crucial test of theories about intercontinental differences in societies, it had the most distinctive environment, and also the most distinctive societies. Torres strait and those few small groups of cape york aborigines: malaria was a major factor that defeated all european attempts to settle the new guinea lowlands until the 1880s.
