Human History

A.  Diamond’s major theme is talking about history in a sense of science. That the geographical areas of the world explain how and why the human race evolved the way it did. Diamond often talks about the domesticated animals, plants and how the climate of the land effects how the people that lived there would act.

B. The most important determinants to a society’s success is domestication and innovation. A society has to be able to domesticate plants and animals to survive and many places in the world had a very hard time finding animals and plants to domesticate over a large space of land. They also needed to innovate because that’s how they would become better at surviving in the world. Innovation could be achieved through time, which a lot of societies did not have because they were busy being gatherers and hunters.

C. In the global economy you can see those that are thriving are the ones that get to innovate instead of focusing on agriculture. Innovators get to trade for agricultural goods they need but the price for them is lower than it is for those trading away their agricultural goods.