Guns, Germs and Steel Part 18 of 18

Episode Three : Into the Tropics (Part 6 of 6)

So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people -- Europeans -- endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel allowed Europeans to colonize vast tracts of the globe -- but what happened when this all-conquering package arrived in Africa, the birthplace of humanity?

Can Jared Diamond's theories explain how a continent so rich in natural resources, could have ended up the poorest continent on earth?

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[BigBagsForRent]

What an amazing and compassionate guy. I was watching him talk to the lady about all the dead children and he just had this stoney look on his face. I thought "oh yeah just another cold logical scientist," and then BAM he just breaks and the crying starts. Respect.

[mickeypopa]

This documentary was much needed to put some sense into white supremacist assholes who think they are better than others. No, they aren't. They're just living off of wealth their greedy ancestors have looted from other parts of the world and brought back to Europe/America.

[Nubfalconium]

Fantastic upload! Thank you so much! :))

[LeadCrystal]

Thank you so much for uploading this video! I've been trying to rent it from the library but it's always gone whenever I get down there and I'm too lazy to reserve it. The book was fascinating, but it honestly makes so much more sense to me in this format. Thank you!

[mickeypopa]

@IS8x57IS

And how much natural resources including metal & mineral ores, gold, silver, diamonds and other natural wealth has been looted from Africa forever?

No, no need to answer that, because everyone knows that.

You're a hypocrite, typical Westerner "We come to bring help and peace" when in fact all you want is wealth for your greedy asses.

You can take your "well intentions" and shove them up your ass.

Yeah, like they gave a shit about Africans pff don't make me laugh.

[IS8x57IS]

@mickeypopa First of all: slavery is only one part of the picture.

Secondly: Whites have been enslaved just as blacks (Romans took Gauls and Germans as slaves, the Vikings the Irish and even in the 19th century most people wouldn't see the difference between a free coal miner and a slave)

Thirdly: How many Africans do you think would exist today if the Europeans wouldn't have provided agricultural technology and healthcare?

Fourthly: Take your time to research before answering!

[hayden50]

@mickeypopa apparently you have the intelligence of a single celled organism...Today, Africans are reaping the benefits of European colonization.

[mickeypopa]

@IS8x57IS

Please, don't insult my intelligence with that moronic trolling.

Africans have benefited from slavery?

You were right, idiots are indeed common on Youtube and you're one of them.

[IS8x57IS]

@IS8x57IS ! The truth is: the others before were not any different! And before you idiots call me a racist instead of using your brains (small as they may be): I'm not! I have friends of any colour - just not any that I let get away with the "free lunch" called "affirmative action" (Practise to put idiots in charge because they are deemed to be from a "discriminated race")

[IS8x57IS]

@IS8x57IS because they beg us to stay schooling them and providing medicine! Of course they do it the African way: Telling us that we were assholes in the past and that we have to make up for it! Well here's a question: How come there are at least 100 times more Africans today than in 1500 AD? Because the African shamanes developed a pharmaceutical breakthrough? Because the Africans found out how to grow a surplus of food supply? It's easy to be whining about how cruel the victors were

[IS8x57IS]

@mickeypopa You're such an idiot! (But that's common!) If you put everything on a balance sheet, colonization has benefitted Africans! Europeans turned Sambia and Zimbabwe into breadbaskets of Africa - the Africans managed to destroy it all! Europeans brought railroads, medicine, literacy - no they didn't do that for the goodness of their hearts, but to their advantage, but to think Africans would have been better off without us is nonsense! Why don't we pull out entirely? ...

[Bangell99]

My heart just sank when he started crying. Such a lovely and compassionate guy as well as an interesting thinker.