![]() ![]() In Part One of the book, Diamond sketches out the course of recent human history, emphasizing the differences between civilizations. ![]() ![]() Yali wanted to know, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”-in other words, why have European societies been so militarily, economically, and technologically successful in the last 500 years, while other societies have not approached such a level of achievement? The book is framed as a response to a question that Diamond heard from Yali, a charismatic New Guinean politician. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond outlines the theory of geographic determinism, the idea that the differences between societies and societal development arise primarily from geographical causes. ![]()
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