Guns, Germs and Steel Part 11 of 18

Episode Two : Conquest (Part 5 of 6)

On November 15th 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrive in the holy city of Cajamarca, at the heart of the Inca Empire, in Peru.

They are exhausted, outnumbered and terrified -- ahead of them are camped 80,000 Inca troops and the entourage of the Emperor himself.

Yet, within just 24 hours, more than 7,000 Inca warriors lie slaughtered; the Emperor languishes in chains; and the victorious Europeans begin a reign of colonial terror which will sweep through the entire American continent.

Why was the balance of power so unequal between the Old World, and the New?

Can Jared Diamond explain how America fell to guns, germs and steel?

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[chefawkes]

nex time those bible thumpers knock on my door ima be like "begone from here hair face!"

[Venaloid]

"Christians only kill in the heat of the battle."

Isn't it supposed to be, "Not at all?"

I guess some things never change.

[savageecho]

@Venaloid Or during inquisitions, fear of witchcraft, difference of belief, 'moral' executions, etc...

[Seanze329]

@DionLaurent1 And whites aren't happy that it happened and neither is this documentary if you watch the rest of it. He even says that this documentary and book should be used to make sure it doesn't happen again.

[Seanze329]

@DionLaurent1 In no way is this saying good job to whites. It is not JUSTIFYING the cause of what happened, it is EXPLAINING the cause of what happened. And once again in reality it is saying that the success of the Eurasian peoples doesn't have anything to do with an innate ability in those people but rather the innate opportunity that the geography gives. Eurasians are not the way they are today because they are better but rather their land was better. Nothing they could control.

[DionLaurent1]

@Seanze329 From where I'm standing, it makes whites look like concurring warriors. Seems more to glorify them if anything. And I can't stand this enforced white guilt it's trying to promote. It's bullshit and will accomplish nothing. If anything whites should be mad that it ever happened and strive like the rest of us for it never to happen again. Regardless the race.

[Seanze329]

@DionLaurent1 It doesn't really matter and reflects nothing negative on black people. You're being overly defensive. This entire documentary talks about white people murdering natives yet I take no offense. This entire documentary talks about people being basically the same all around the world. This isn't a story its a factual documentary so deal with the fact that it was a black man. It doesn't even matter to anyone and shouldnt matter to you.

[ipeachi32]

weird how the "dead people" are still breathing...

[DionLaurent1]

Oh great. Blame a black man for bringing the 1st disease to the u.s. They just blame us for everything negative.