Guns, Germs and Steel Part 17 of 18

[katertot881]

@Whitevoice14 here's an idea. why don't you read the book? it says that since there were more germs in europe, the people that survived were not those who were smarter, but the ones who had better physical immunity. meanwhile, in places with less germs, the people who survived were the ones that were smarter and knew how to stay alive.

[IS8x57IS]

@katertot881 ...and Jared Diamond appears to be proof for that theory! LOL!

[Talentedtongueoo7]

i don't think some groups of people are better then others

i'v meet blacks and others that were way smater then me its not race it the person

thats what guns,germs and steel is trying to explan to people the more you know the more you grow,lool

[Whitevoice14]

This video is complete bs! Full of contradiction, and complete shit! They had all the same resources, animals, and now saying metal working, I think that is BS but if so where is our so called advantage? He says guns gave us an edge, yes, but we had to think the gun and other technologies up! Indians sat on iron ore for 1000's of yrs and never did shit! Haiti & Africa we built shit up and later gave it to them and they just destroyed it!

[jamariogoon]

@Whitevoice14 but they didn't have the same resources... did you not watch and of the first few videos. racist dickhead

[Whitevoice14]

@jamariogoon Your a moron, Africa is full of resources so funny when we went there we could find and use them, I always here all you cry babies complain we stole all their resources now you all say they had none, just more excuses for stupid savages! What about the Indians in South America still in the stone age, S. America has as many resources if not more than N. America! We had more advanced shit like guns etc cause we was able to use what was there and have the intellect to do it!

[Whitevoice14]

@jamariogoon Fuck you and this excuse video, always an excuse for Negroes etc when they fail! I guess the need to lower the educational standards in the late 50's and 60's here in America cause it was always the Negroes falling behind for the most part to hide the gap they used to put the higher achieves separate from lower most lower was blacks or the Ohio police dept, having to lower their min test scores so more blacks passed has more excuses LOL Go away!

[Whitevoice14]

@jamariogoon @jamariogoon Fuck you and this excuse video, always an excuse for Negroes etc when they fail! I guess the need to lower the educational standards in the late 50's and 60's here in America cause it was always the Negroes falling behind for the most part to hide the gap they used to put the higher achieves separate from lower most lower was blacks or the Ohio police dept, having to lower their min test scores so more blacks passed has more excuses LOL Go away!

[jamariogoon]

@Whitevoice14 haha you're a pathetic scumbag

[Whitevoice14]

@jamariogoon And you have no intelligent comeback so what does that mean? Are you just getting owned?

[jamariogoon]

@Whitevoice14 no point argueing with an idiot over the internet

[Whitevoice14]

@jamariogoon (1) When you said ( but they didn't have the same resources... did you not watch and of the first few videos. racist dickhead) to me that sounds like the start of a debate, ur saying I was wrong about something am I correct?

[iasnb17yt]

@Whitevoice14 We developed these things because of our large food surplus, indians and other people did not have so much food and had to activiley gather food they did not have time to sit around and play with metals. Also largley due to christianity and mercantilism caused europeans to be very expansive and have made us acustom to conquering and colonizing other lands.

[Whitevoice14]

@iasnb17yt We had to store food from the climate we lived in to survive, the cold climate gave us many advantages it toughened us up, and raised the IQ via natural selection over the eons. Smart inventive people survived. But we also had hard times, thus Viking raids on other lands for supplies! I do agree to some exstent on the Christian aspect, but even today the same stuff happens, still the whites and Asians who make the most contrabutions, Africa is a parasite!

[iasnb17yt]

@Whitevoice14 Even if whites and asians on average are smarter than blacks there is always individuals who exceed the intelligence of others in you whatever group of people. No way to justify mass segergation or genocide especialy since there would be some blacks who are smarter than the average asian or white. Natural selection will take its course so if blacks really are dumber than asians or whites then they will slowly die out. Of course that would just be untill whites and asians living in

[Whitevoice14]

@iasnb17yt No shit on the skin darkening shit. And what about the genocide of my people via intergration and invasion of our living space? Funny you'd cry over an Indian or black yet fuck what happens to us , get lost!

[iasnb17yt]

@Whitevoice14 So now white people are being genocided by other races because black people live near them? POOR US WERE IS THE JUSTICE!!?!?

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@iasnb17yt True to that, but also the thing is; Humans today are defying natural selection...

[Whitevoice14]

@iasnb17yt Omega 3 in fish played a role to in brain development in evolution thus the Scandinavians and Medatranians seemed to do the best and the Japs close to the sea. Omega 3 fatty acids have been shown to raise the intelligence in kids. This is a personal idea of mine!

[iasnb17yt]

@Whitevoice14 part 2- in warmer climates adapt and their skin becomes dark.

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@iasnb17yt ...acustom to conquering and colonizing other lands? Just about every one was doing that bud.

[luisdez81]

Europeans of the past were disease ridden, blood thirsty, genocidal maniacs ruled by their lust of greed.

[Herkkis]

The book was a very good read, this documentary in comparison is pure shit. Fuck National Geographic.

[SuperDarkknight01]

If I hear guns, germs, and steel one more time lmao

[DanPhantom89]

even today, about 1 million Africans die each year of Malaria, which is a contributing factor to why they're as bad off as they are now. Even when it doesn't kill, it cripples and incapacitates, lowering production.

[ehohkay]

wtf happened? damn... history is a bitch huh?

[Zack022591]

why are there random conversations about china in a documentary centering around Europe Africa and the Americans 

[Dougster]

There is a lesson to be learned here for all those people broadcasting messages out in space hoping to contact an alien race...

[InternetGlove]

Why u white man have so much cargo?

[wiseye61]

@InternetGlove

Guns, germs and steel. ;)

[lilmandz14]

Oh my GOD will you stop saying "GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL"!?!?!?!?!

[Serveck]

@lilmandz14 watch the movie again because apparently you still don't get it do you?

[milleroh]

BTW I hear what sounds like an australian accent??

[MisterSmellenKeller]

@milleroh HAHAHAHAHA

[milleroh]

@MisterSmellenKeller I cant help but to think about it.. I am still wondering what accent that is LOL

[milleroh]

Diamond looks great for 70!!

[astrothwins]

I wish we could still buy slaves.

[AllknowingGuitarGuru]

@astrothwins You can if you're Chinese. China's pretty much making America a debtors prison, where Americans are slaves to their national debt. Next stop for China's slavery train? Ireland.

[Oldcartoons571]

@astrothwins why?

[cobrachoppergirl]

Obviously Zambia needs to go back to the old ways, of living in small communities spread out in high, dry areas away from water sources which are breeding grounds for mosquitoes. This documentary makes it plainly obvious. European style large cities which concentrate people will not work in the tropics where infectious diseases abound.

[whitesox889]

Those belgians were rough.

[MingTheMerciful]

What about india , china, arabia ? they should talk more about them .

[yankbastard]

@MingTheMerciful

Maybe you should read the book. This documentary is only a summarized version of the book.

[cinndave]

In spite of the food shortages, high rates of child mortality, and death by contagious diseases, African countries still have the fastest population growth. Ethiopia doubles every 35 years. Societies that encourage high fertility are the cause of much poverty. Thank the Catholic Church for blocking the distribution of contraceptives in Africa. >:-(

[lilrog0909]

@cinndave

They are also creating Regional African agriculture/water unions to make sure that there land can never be oppress again. So why is Africa depopulation so important to non-Africans because of their resources for trade.

[cinndave]

@lilrog0909 Huh? Nobody wants to depopulate; just lower fertility so they can take the quality-over-quantity approach. It has nothing to do with their resources, unless we're talking about raising per capita income to the point where they can start importing foreign goods. Then everybody wins.

[acerb45666555]

in Canada every single community, native or white, was set up near rivers and lakes. right in the middle of mosquito zone! but malaria up here doesnt hit as hard as in the south! you wont see me in Panama!! mosquitos have an entire air force down there!! BZZZZZZZZZ!

[MrLukasart]

I didn't know Indian Jones was a Belgian Slave Driver determined to maximize his industrial age profits !!! 2:23

[oihhow]

Wow, "It's nations are free and independent"? Really?

[Slipknotyk06]

@oihhow - They are no longer European colonies by law. They are their own sovereign countries now. That's all he meant by that assertion.

[Fifthapeproject]

Can somebody please tell me, how the Belgians managed to colonize Congo? Weren't they also susceptible to the germs (malaria etc) he's talking about in the video's before? Because to me that isn't made clear in the video :)

[quitejaded]

@Fifthapeproject That is why I will read the book!

[Slipknotyk06]

@Fifthapeproject - They may have had the aid of the first vaccinations, and they had better health care than 20 years before.

[Fifthapeproject]

@Slipknotyk06 Thanks for the reply!

[Slipknotyk06]

@Fifthapeproject - no prob

[hrothgleas]

@Fifthapeproject It's more like they conquered it, than colonized. The huge majority of Congolese are of African ancestry - very different from the situation in N. America or Australia.

[hrothgleas]

@Fifthapeproject It was more like 'conquer' than 'colonize.' Native immunity to disease kept them from being wiped out, as in N America, Australia, and S Africa. So Belgians ruled Congo, because of superior technology, but they didn't swamp out the native populations.

[richbullva]

@Fifthapeproject Read King Leopolds Ghost i forget the author but it tells the story of how the Belgiums did what they did

[77darksphere]

boys - its all about violence against people....

sad

[georgel19841]

he sure makes him self publicity

[comadivine1]

this document's argument is to thin to explain the knowledge advanteged developed by the europeans over africans and other civilisations. what about church, universities the concept of science ( developed by Greeks ). this is what you get when a biology profesor tries to tackle antropology. germs and steel - great

[marioalosangeles]

Some say that Europe advanced more because of the resources available, some say because there wasn't enough, therefore they had an urgency to advance just to survive. Either way it is, It all came down to who advanced at a faster rate, i bet if the mayas, aztecs, zulues, were face to face with a European of that era, with the same weapons as them, there would be no match! Technology makes them

[marioalosangeles]

the aztecs, the mayas, the incas, the zulues were wasriors, REAL WARRIORS. warriors with lack of technology

[adrastea99]

That would make them stupid warriors who can't make good weapons

[marioalosangeles]

another ignorant fool... again, europeans stole these ideas from the china. gun powder and steel really originated in china... europeans got their hands on it and made a "tried" taking over the world. A european against a mayan warrior hand to hand??? yeah right...

[adrastea99]

That doesn't make sense

If Europeans stole ideas from China, then why is every piece of technology in Chinese military from Russia or America and why are we speaking English right now?

What kind of a dumb ape fights one on one and hand to hand? Scratch that, even chimpanzees have the presence of mind to attack in armies and at least use rocks and tree branches as weapons

Bottom line, the American natives were incompetent and lost badly

Now South America is populated by White people

[marioalosangeles]

we are talking about  "guns, steel, and germs" aren't we? the foundation of all these new weapons!

And that wasn't my point at all smart one. i even used the example of a USM of today against a spartan. both using the weapons of the spartan, or even hand to hand combat. The spartan would wipe the florr with the marine because they have become so dependant on their weapons. same with the indigenous people and the Europeans. you think 80,000 could not defeat a smaller army?

[adrastea99]

How bout a spartan against a marine with no weapons? Fucking idiot

You're a dumb, idealistic, romantic who doesn't realize just how far we've come as human beings

[Freshhhhh1982]

@marioalosangeles Fuck you`re racist. Why do we still dominate then?

[marioalosangeles]

uummmm, idk if you knew this. but the white race is starting disapear... even in ameirca... read about it.

you don't dominate nothing bro. and thanx to people like you with an ego higher than a tower, America is starting to fall... what a shame... why do people like you have to exist?? Mayas were real warriors, aztecs were real warriors, zulues were real warriors. europeans just used borrowed technologie from the chinese..... How am i racist???

[Freshhhhh1982]

@marioalosangeles Theres only one non-white country in the G8. As for the white race starting to disappear, we`re actually growing but at a much slower rate than other races. Which is a good thing considering the Earth doesnt have infinite resources. How are Europeans not real warriors?

[marioalosangeles]

Who told you that lie??? Whites are not even expected to be a majority in the coming years.

All i was saying is that the europenas took over so easily because they had advanced technologie in those days. I cannot sit here and believe that a european conquistador or settler could have beaten a warrior that grew up in a jungle fighting beasts or in a decert, and learned to fight all his life. These were real warriors!

[Freshhhhh1982]

For population growth look at my comment again. White were always a minority. You need to watch this series over again. Europeans developed these technologies because we were always at war with eachother. Ever hear of ww1 and ww2. OMFG. This is pointless. Good luck.

[marioalosangeles]

where did you get such false information? here is something out of wikipedia...

"Whites constitute the majority of the US population with 75.05% of the population.[1] Whites are regarded as the socially and demographically dominant racial group in the United States"

NO! asian developed them. look into history. Asian developed Gun powder and Steel. Europe borrowed these elements and made a disater with them! This history goes back way before ww1 and ww2! yes it is pointless! good luck to you!

[adrastea99]

There are 1.3 billion white people, with birth rates high in America and former Soviet bloc countries, birth rates slowly rising in Western Europe and South America and death rates plunging all over the developed world

I don't know what you are talking about "disappearing", we own three and a half continents

"mayas were real warriors"

More like "real losers", considering they lost badly with 30,000 Mayas against 250 Conquistadors

Weak pussy fags

Put a Mayan in front of a Berserker lol

[davepx]

"...birth rates high in America and former Soviet bloc countries"

Wrong. The crude rate has halved in the US since 1910 to a mere 1.4% and fallen still more sharply across Eastern Europe & the forner USSR. Russia alone has lost 6 million people since 1991.

"birth rates slowly rising in Western Europe and South America"

Wrong. They're falling, as pretty much everywhere else.

"and death rates plunging all over the developed world"

Wrong. They're rising - fewer youngsters, more elderly.

[adrastea99]

Everything you said is either extremely misinformed or a lie

What's your source?

[adrastea99]

For example, US has a 18.5 birth rate and 8.2 death rate, which indicates growth

You are confusing this with fertility rate, which is meaningless without supporting info

[marioalosangeles]

racist??? not at all... i love white people...

but to answer your question... because for now, you are still a majority that is slowly falling...

[Freshhhhh1982]

@marioalosangeles For one Europeans are way taller than a real Mayan. Secondly who were Mayans fighting. Europeans were fighting eachother for thousands of years. Ever hear of vikings, barbarians and celts. Thats why we had to develope weapons because we were constantly at war up to about 60 years ago.

[marioalosangeles]

height could never determine the weiner in a fight. NEVER! The mayans would fight other tribes, and also fight beasts in the jungles. Yes i have heard of them, they were pretty tought warriors, But all the technologie they had made them weaker warriors and more dependant on their weapons and other advantages. Tell me a USM officer can stand in battle with a spartan these days with the same weapons as a spartan.

[marioalosangeles]

the europeans of that era had become too dependant on their technologie...

[Freshhhhh1982]

@marioalosangeles Height is a very good indicator of who will win a fight. Its a distinct advantage. Myans may have had tribal wars. Europeans had tribal wars in addition to wars between nations. Celts, vikings and barbarians only had spears, swords, shields and arrows. In addition they had to worry about things like keeping warm during harsh winters, wolves, bears and food shortages. The Americas have never had any real wars on their continent. We`ve been continuously at war up till about 1950.

[marioalosangeles]

you can assume that someone will win a fight because of their height. However, it does not determine who will win a fight. We see this in everyday life. Don't tell me you have never seen a little dude beat up a taller man?

indigenous people too! they worried about more than just tribal wars.. come on now!

[adrastea99]

So?

If you want to be equal, put a modern day Mexican against a Marine or put a Berserker against a Maya or Inca

Fucking Berserker would rip through them

[marioalosangeles]

@adrastea99

a modern day mexican compared to a marine. One who has been trained in battle against one who lives an average life? please, your comparison is stupid. Today's inhabitants of mexico guatemala, africa, aren't as violent as the real indigenous were. how dumb.

[adrastea99]

A mexican soldier you fucking dumbass

I thought that was implied

And today's marines aren't as violent as the berserkers were

If you're going to compare people, don't do it unfairly

[marioalosangeles]

hey fuck you shithead! don't come to me like that you piece of shit! A mexican soldier still does not have the resources that a USM has, so its all the same shit! Hand to hand??? Maybe the mexican sinse they are trained to eat shit to survive(figuratively) but then again who knows because modern day mexicans aren't full blooded aztecs. and why you only talk about mexico? other warriors would whipe the floor with a USM.

[adrastea99]

A MEXICAN SOLDIER

VERSUS AN AMERICAN SOLDIER

HAND TO HAND COMBAT'

Maybe if you had one brain cell to work with you could have figured it out without me drawing you a freaking flowchart

Name a non white country that has soldiers which could take a US marine hand to hand

[marioalosangeles]

I know there are plenty of soldiers from other countries who can beat the shit out of a Marine, Marines are not unvoulnerable... and fuck you! i have more brain active brain cells than you shithead.

[afthefragile]

Why did this dude focus predominantly on South Americas where the Incas lived still in a very primitive civilization and culture and Africa where people were even more primitive and conveniently leave out Middle Ease, Asia and China?

Maybe he could touch of how Europeans were defeated in the Crusades, how the Brits defeated Ottomans through propaganda and inciting Arab nationalism, how they took control of India through deceit and famines and how they got the Chinese hooked on opium...

[fredph123]

Diamond conveniently overlooks Asia. They invented gunpowder, paper, and the compass. They had a system of writing, had the same cattle as Europe, had a similar climate, had the same germs, had a lot more spices than Europe, and produced the largest cities in the world. The spices and riches of Asia is what prompted Columbus to try to get there. If Diamond's argument is to be believed, why didn't China take over the world?

[Seiku]

China isolated itself as much as it could from the outside world. It did have visitors who did trade some of the items as you described but they really didn't try to keep any links with the outside world. I read elsewhere that China was self sufficiant enough to stay locked in and unlike Europeans they werent quick to adopt foreign technologies or ideas so really change was stagnant (which was an advantage for European colonization of China in the later years).

[lawlzinatorz]

don't fully believe me; the Europeans had more of an idea for conquest and to "save" native people from Hell.

But yes, your statement is a good point.

[davepx]

China didn't want to take over the world. "I have but one aim in view, namely, to maintain a perfect governance and to fulfil the duties of the State: strange and costly objects do not interest me," as the Emperor wrote in 1793. Try turning your question on its head, and consider why Europeans found their contnent and its plentiful resources so insufficient even when they were doing rather well.

[hustlaus]

Good point. Take a look at corporate America's marriage with the government in the U.S. While people were paying record prices for gas, the oil companies were enjoying record profits. The Obama administration gave billions to the banks in an effort for them to fuel the economy via lending. Instead, their CEO's were enjoying million dollar bonuses. Greed will be the down fall of the U.S. and world!!!

[hustlaus]

China did not have the motivation of greed and conquest that Europeans had. Secondly, they did have the idea to kill people, steal land, rape the people, and use divid and conquer to achieve their objectives.

[adrastea99]

Lol, yeah they did

Mongolians, Mancu and Han had an entire philosophy of greed and they preformed atrocities unheard of in the darkest days of the Inquisition

Don't whitewash history

[herbelizerbunny]

its important to remember these traits arnt white, or black or asian or amerindian, they are human traits and the reason the human race is great. Greed and the desire to conquest are being human at its most primal and true form.

[trousien]

i'd have to agree on you with that one but the thing is i think the ended up wasting most their time trying to find the immortal elixir instead of world conquest lol but then again mongols were the ones that were the closest to world conquest.. but then again if you look at how those empires came to be it was more heroic then the white mans tales of a gun fake promises

[adrastea99]

Heroic?

Dude, it's only heroic because it's ancient history

2000 years from now, people are going to talk about how heroic the conquest of Australia, Americas, Africa and Asia was by white people

[Sotamursu90]

Diamond almost makes it seem like these "great civilizations" in tropical africa actually achieved something worth mentioning. I would like to see what these "complex" societies accomplished other than mud huts.

[26blanco]

by stealing whites became better than africans.they robbed lives and lands.

[willyrobinson]

quit your anti-white bs & take responsibility for your own hapiness.

Shaka Zulu, Ghengis Khan, Moors, Japanese Empire, Turks, Arabs invading egypt/palestine/persia, Timurids/Mughals in India etc could be said to have 'robbed lives and lands'.

U speak via envy not moral concern because its the Caucasians who developed the modern world & also conquered places. Others conquered but either lack in fruits or didn't last. You don't blame them. Ur speaking from hatred/envy of the Caucasian ppls.

[TOTCD]

@willyrobinson I think you're right here.

[willyrobinson]

@TOTCD - I'm still right. And I put that up a long while ago. My spelling above is the result of the 500 character limit, and not my insufficiency with the English language. They say they're anti-racist. What they are is anti-white. It's a pro-genocide position.

[willyrobinson]

@willyrobinson We can go on about the false-scientific reality of 'race', but race is recognized under the laws for prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Saddam could of gone to court and said the 'Kurds' were just a social construct. But there is no such thing as a 'social construct' under international law. If you don't believe me go find Saddam and ask him.

[HybridD91]

@willyrobinson Anti sexism is anti male. Keep throwing genocide around, people may not take it serious when it happens. Useful idiot.

[willyrobinson]

@HybridD91 - An attempt at genocide is happening. It's a process long underway. That's the point. The people don't have to take it serious. Tribunals aren't democratic processes.

[NoirOnigiri]

Oh. My. Gosh.

I'm white, but I have NEVER thought myself smarter or more superior than any other race on the planet.

"Surveys" done on black/white intelligence are BIASED. Our freaking PRESIDENT is black. Maybe he is just an exception to the rule. But there is a 99% chance that he really has no higher an IQ than any other African American.

Now let me say IQ has nothing to do with intelligence. It is simply your capacity for learning. Someone with 100 IQ may be no smarter than someone with 140.

[juju10683]

You guys should really read the book.

[lvll138inrs]

I am so proud of being white, our race has accomplished more then any other race.

[willyrobinson]

Some people learn it on the streets. Some people learn it in the schools. We whites...we were born with it holmes. This book should be in the humor section in the book store. I dont think ive ever heard of a book which glorifies so much the 3rd world and the uncivilized in general. The proof is in the puddin. Did America fare as the Indians did - or did they progress as their British forbears b4 them? Did the Euros fare as the Blks in Africa or as the Euros in Europe?

follow the white rabbit.

[drphibeswhatever]

Did you actually read the book?

[assoverbambox]

Did you pay any attention to Diamond's hypothesis at all? Of course we were born with "it". "It" being the geographic means to progress. Are you stupid? I think you're stupid, willyrobinson.

[blechke]

You are a bunch of dumb motherfuckers. The documentary is not about who is superior or inferior. It explains why different races and cultures developed at different paces. He mentions geography, climate, population density, and proximity to other cultures as the main reasons affecting advancement in agriculture and technology. No where in the film does it mention one race being genetically inferior or superior to others. Thats not what this film is about.

[MrJuggrnt1]

@blechke, I like your comment on "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Diamond actually opens up the book and this series speaking with great respect for Yali and his people. He was stumped that such a fantastic group of people were left behind by the other civilizations, because mentally, there was no reason for this. I'd say that this book and series is all about how "farmer power" created civilization, and how geography paired with farmer power pushed certain civilizations to become dominant.. Thanks.

[joshy1ification]

@blechke correct my friend i am half white n black this is not racist puts a lot of racists down as its not about skin color or race just luck where you was born in terms of resources etc

[bumfire007]

@blechke Too many racist have based there life on being superior when simple truth is basically dumb luck put European where there are.

[Beef1188]

@bumfire007 How dare you call on providence? He told you in the face that is was geography!

[xxTeutonicKnightxx]

@bumfire007 Yea I know just like the dumb luck how the German tribs made Pattern welded steels at 700BC or 800BC were the Greeks, Persian, and many others did not. Or how the Greeks kick out the Persian Empire after the battle of Thermopylae. Dumb luck huh? "Guns, Germs, and Steel" has many truths but it also has too much gaps in it...

[bumfire007]

@xxTeutonicKnightxx dude whole steel welding tech was explained only gaps their are ones you want to see.

[Whitevoice14]

@blechke It's a bunch of bullshit and excuses for the worthless fucking Negro! And filled with Afrocentric bullshit!

[Whitevoice14]

@blechke This was one sided bullshit everyone with a brain knows any scientists who said intelligence was the factor would be black balled and fired and won;t get on TV!

[pillsburydoughboy47]

I believe that genetic "weakness" among the Hebrew people exists for a reason; in ancient times Hebrew Jews encountered a nasty epidemic, that led to the red blood cell anemia adaptation, similar to how Africans developed sickle cell anemia which protected them against malaria.

[pillsburydoughboy47]

A lot of Diamond's environmental arguments make sense; leprosy was a disease that in ancient times, devastated the Hebrew population of the Levant. As a defensive mechanism (possibly), as a group of people semitic Jews developed red blood cell anemia. With no red blood cells to travel on, or however the hell that works, I personally think it gives white blood cells a chance to kill off the bacteria that caused leprosy.

[NCMACT]

I have look through the comments and man if those who are glorifying Europe are white then that would indicate that many Europeans have not changed they are just like the NAZIs. Destroy the world and mock and laugh at those who you have ruined for centuries to come. Worst yet it might not only protain to Africa.

[junkyassmonkey]

arguing about racial superiority while watching people die. you truly are scum

[jkkslldsl]

the argument for the tropics is compelling, but what of the Caribbean which is also a tropic climate... why were europeans able to thrive there?

[demexii1]

Wow, Europeans are badass. They completely took over 3 entire continents and put them to work for tiny little European countries. They got some major skills.

[purplepeace123]

if you watched the whole series you would understand that they had no initial skill, they just had a head start.

[stelamo]

that's true but I'm sort of glad i did ....

[the7thwreck]

bloody belgians....blame them! not all europeans! anyway, any race of us could be where whites are today...it was all down to geography.

[woodesroger]

you know your racist when....but as 7thwreck said, if the journey of man theory is true, then its not what race you are, but your geography

[Munselvaesche]

The lesson is the bankers and the financiers have taken over. Watch, now, America in is death throes. Schadenfreude if you must. The same powers are now doing to us what they did to the rest for 500 years. Gloat if you must. It is the Same, Old, Story; and another tragedy of humankind.

[vizionzofspace12]

before the bankers it was and sometimes still is the barrister. Knowledge of the law is the most important thing one could have.

[afthefragile]

England has been indebted to the Bank of England since the Napoleonic wars. Since the the Bankers (especially the Rothschilds who control the Bank of England) have been controlling the society.

Its no new thing. It were the bankers who financed all the wars and technological revolutions that bought about the success of the West. Not some guns, germs and steel. And this is still true. Its the bankers who funded Hitler and the bankers who're funding the War on Terrorism. The world is a business!

[tonydingler]

Damm ! Us White folks is some real bad asses !!

[the7thwreck]

hA, IM GONNA WATCH THAT VIDEO IN THE 'RELATED VIDEOS' CALLED 'FIVE MAJOR FLAWS IN GUNS,GERMS AND STEEL' SEE WHAT THAT HAS TO SAY. sry caps. very interesting stuff though.

[BorisRaw]

The roots aint't the f*cking belgians or the europeans..

[BorisRaw]

lol, it's so ridicilous to say that Africa is (have been, will be) what it is because of "the belgians" or something like that. Like you have missed mr. Diamonds point, the roots of unequality that we can see all over the world just now.

[lamok1985]

africa should have been like south america right now if its not for those belgiums

[crazydancingpoet]

Those fucking evil Europeans....

[the7thwreck]

ha, you have obviously missed the point, apparently the Europeans are how they are because of geography! Whoever was born in the right place first whould have been where the Europeans are today.

[maddenx4thdownx]

Why exactly would the deadly cold kill off more lower IQ people? Once the smart people make better and warmer shelter and clothes then lower IQ people could just live in them or copy cat the smarter people.

It doesnt take a genius to wear warm animal fur or have a big fire in your house

[Ooloosoon]

Come on dude!

guess you have never been Winter Camping

the difference from Summer camping is live Night and day....there are a huge number of factors that come into play that you dont even have to think about in the summer

In a Cold environment you are in a CONSTANT SURVIVAL STATE...just to keep the BASICS NEEDED TO STAY ALIVE.

Ever heard the old saying "Its SUMMER TIME and the LIVINGS.EASY"?

Read Doctor Lynns Latest "The Evolution of Racial Differences in Intelligence"

[Azzaiel]

c'mon you are ruining his sad claims

[LimpLoser]

Damn Belgium Bastards

[muchachaverdeygris]

omg, does he have to say guns, germs and steel so many times?

[stuffupthecracks]

Each repetition signifies a commercial break is imminent. "And now a word from our sponsor."

[masternrider]

lol, I don't know if that is true but it is funny

[bak2work]

you have to be the biggest DUMMY on earth and you're taking the hell express