Guns, Germs, & Steel - EP1: Out of Eden (1/6)

Episode One: Out of Eden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TVUllNB8c&playnext=1&list=PL4FC440D8...

Episode Two: Conquest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwhAQwWMNs&playnext=1&list=PLCBC7FCE1...

Episode Three: Into the Tropics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW7R741VTPE&playnext=1&list=PL9074414B...

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/index.html

Episode One: Out of Eden

Jared Diamond's journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question:

"Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?"

Diamond realized that Yali's question penetrated the heart of a great mystery of human history -- the roots of global inequality.

Why were Europeans the ones with all the cargo? Why had they taken over so much of the world, instead of the native people of New Guinea? How did Europeans end up with what Diamond terms the agents of conquest: guns, germs and steel? It was these agents of conquest that allowed 168 Spanish conquistadors to defeat an Imperial Inca army of 80,000 in 1532, and set a pattern of European conquest which would continue right up to the present day.

Diamond knew that the answer had little to do with ingenuity or individual skill. From his own experience in the jungles of New Guinea, he had observed that native hunter-gatherers were just as intelligent as people of European descent -- and far more resourceful. Their lives were tough, and it seemed a terrible paradox of history that these extraordinary people should be the conquered, and not the conquerors.

To examine the reasons for European success, Jared realized he had to peel back the layers of history and begin his search at a time of equality -- a time when all the peoples of the world lived in exactly the same way.




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[Castillo3Castro]

i was supposed to see this during my GEO class today, but i knocked out after the first 5 minutes.

[solariis888]

@luketh0 same difference cock sucker.

[luketh0]

@solariis888 Good thing this is a Nat Geo show..

[solariis888]

PBS has degenerated... God damned lies.

[wailinburnin]

"...ever since, people of European origin have dominated the World..." - Not in terms of art, music, and population growth or now, scientific advancement.