Page 1 of 5 http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/04021016011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7380000/7382166.jpg Three Day worksheet for episodes one and two, seven period day. Read through all of the questions for each day prior to answering them Day 1 Questions 1-15 Day 2 Questions 16-25 (Begin on chapter 7 of Out of Eden then begin Episode 2 Conquest ) Day 3 Questions 26-38 (Begin on chapter 5 of Conquest The Advantage of Steel)
Page 2 of 5 1. What are some of the question that the video proposes during the introduction? 2. What question was Diamond asked by a man on the beach? 3. What do the New Guineans mean by the word cargo? 4. What are Jared Diamond s feelings and views about the people of New Guinea? 5. What challenges did answering this question pose to Diamond? Why was it difficult for him? 6. How far back in time does Jared Diamond go back to start looking for answers? 7. Where on earth today can you find hunter gatherers still today? 8. Why is hunting not an efficient way to gather food? What could go wrong? 9. Describe the gathering that is done by the women in Papua New Guinea. 10. What are the important differences between the plants in the tropics and the plants in Mesopotamia? 11. At the oldest permanent village found what building/structure seemed to be the most important to settling and feeding the community. 12. When people began to pick the and other cereal grasses for grain, what happened to the characteristics of the plants? 13. Why did farming in some places of the world not bring the same benefits that it did in Europe, Asia, and North Africa? 14. What is diamonds conclusion, based on the information above, about why there are such inequalities in human history?
Page 3 of 5 15. What does domestication of animals provide for people, and how is it better than hunting? 16. What benefits are there when people keep animals? What can animals do for farmers? 16. How many animals have humans been able to farm, or domesticate? Name three of them. 17. What does a large surplus of food allow people to do instead of farm, or hunt and gather all the time? 18. According to Diamond, why did people in places like New Guinea not develop advanced technologies? 19. Why did the spread of civilization occurred in places around the world that were on the same latitude as the Middle East? 20. What answer does Diamond come up with as the answer to the man on the beaches question? START EPISODE 2: Conquest 21. How do the Incans first react to the arrival of the Spanish? 22. What is the question that Diamond is trying to answer about Pizarro and the other Conquistadors and conquerors? 23. What happened when crops and agriculture moved out of the Middle East into Europe, North Africa, and Asia? 24. Why were the Inca less productive as European Farmers? 25. What advantages did the horse give to European civilization and Pizarro over the people of the Inca?
Page 4 of 5 26. Why were the Spanish making steel and the Inca only making bronze? 27. Explain how the horse, sword (rapier), and the gun were major factors in the success of the Spanish over the Inca. 28. Why was Atahualpa unafraid of the Spanish? Why were the Spanish afraid of the Inca? 29. What do the Spanish decide to do because they feared the Inca? 30. Why did the spread of civilization not occur in the Americas the same way that it did in Europe and Asia? 31. What did Atahualpa do, or not do, that made it easier for the Spanish to capture him and conquer the Inca? 32. What weapon of mass destruction did the Spanish have that they didn t even know they had? 33. Describe the symptoms of Small Pox. 34. Why was the spread of disease so deadly to Native Americans? 35. Why were Europeans immune to many infectious diseases? Explain the process of becoming immune. 36. What are the estimates on the number of Native Americans that lived in the Americas, and the number of them that died due to disease after the arrival of the Europeans? 37. What happened to Atahualpa after he fulfilled his promise to the Spanish to deliver tins of gold to them? 38.Based on your answer for question #1, how well do you feel that Diamonds theories answers the original questions?
Page 5 of 5 Guns, Germs, and Steel Day 4 Questions 39-38 (Begin Disk two Into the Tropics ) 39. Why were the people of Europe expanding into Africa? When and where did they first arrive? 40. Explain how South Africa is geographically similar to Europe. 41. What happened to the native peoples of Southern Africa upon the arrival of Europeans? 42. How did the Zulu affect the success of settlers moving into areas North of the Cape of South Africa? 43. Give specific examples of what the settlers did different in the attack at Blood River? 44. How did the Industrial Revolution and the development of railroads and advanced firearm technology change the level of success Europeans experienced in Africa? 45. What problems did European colonists suddenly begin to encounter in Africa? List and explain at least two. 46. How was geography affecting the settlers and creating theses problems? 47. How do the similarities of languages in Africa explain human migration across the continent? 48. Why were Africans less susceptible to the diseases that killed European settlers? 49. What did Europeans do to Africans and African civilizations in order to extract the continents natural resources? 50. Malaria is the number 1 killer of children under the age of. How is it devastating Africa in the 21 st century? Why? 51. How many children die in just one day in the high malaria season in this one hospital? 52. How did experiencing what he has written about first hand affect Jarred Diamond? 53. Is there is hope of world cultures overcoming the status quo created by Guns, Germs, and Steel? Explain your answer