Can I get summary on the book Guns, Germs, and Steel?
It is an excellent book, a must-read for any history buff. Prologue The prologue to the book opens with an account of Diamond’s conversation with Yali, a New Guinean politician. The conversation turned to the obvious differences in power and technology between Yali’s people and the Europeans who dominated the land for 200 years, differences that neither of them considered due to any genetic superiority of Europeans. Yali asked, using the local term “cargo” for inventions and manufactured goods, “Why do white people have so much cargo, but we New Guineans have so little?”(p. 14) Diamond realized the same question seemed to apply elsewhere: “People of Eurasian origin… dominate the world in wealth and power.” Other peoples, after having thrown off colonial domination, still lag in wealth and power. Still others, he says, “have been decimated, subjugated, and in some cases even exterminated by European colonialists.” (p. 15) Unable to find a satisfactory explanation from the best-known a
