Guns Germs. and. Steel (2005) part 1

Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, Guns, Germs and Steel traces humanity's journey over the last 13,000 years -- from the dawn of farming at the end of the last Ice Age to the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality.

Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet? Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead? Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East? Why did farming never emerge in Australia? And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?

As he peeled back the layers of history to uncover fundamental, environmental factors shaping the destiny of humanity, Diamond found both his theories and his own endurance tested.

The three one-hour programs were filmed across four continents on High Definition digital video, and combined ambitious dramatic reconstruction with moving documentary footage and computer animation. They also include contributions from Diamond himself and a wealth of international historians, archeologists and scientists.

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a thrilling ride through the elemental forces which have shaped our world -- and which continue to shape our future.

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[TrulyOutrageous80]

Thank you so much for posting!!

[killryn]

@TrulyOutrageous80

your welcome, I take requests ;)

[tdineen12]

@DJLensMusic egypt ?

[DJLensMusic]

@Falsel1ght "The Middle East or Mideast is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa." first line from wikipedia (not that I'm saying it's a reliable source). People say "Middle East" when describing Egypt, clearly an African country

[Falsel1ght]

@DJLensMusic The middle east doesn't include Africa...

[DJLensMusic]

dislike the term "Middle East". people don't want to admit the history they're describing is in Africa

[Auhydride]

10:20 The earth rotates the right way as the documentary is "going back in time" so it's actually going forward in time.

[llieske]

This is seriously an awesome overview of an extraordinary book.... Thank you so much for posting this.

[MrItsalie]

At 35:47 you can see that elephants had larger tusks than they do now. In fact the average size of tusks of elephants have diminished over the last century, because the "big tusk gene" has been hunted into extinction. Just an interesting factoid that poped into my head.