Chapter 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
RJ Stangherlin |
English 5: Guns, Germs, and Steel |
Salisbury High School
Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
/ /Eurasia American
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Latitude and Longitude
Subtitle: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?
East-West axis=> climate => growing conditions, ease of spread of founder package
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germination
growth
disease resistance
Lack of:
*latitude => E-W axis spread
*topographical barriers
*ecological barriers
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*climate and disease stopped the founder package
Axis orientation affected:
food production==>technologies==>invention
Anna Karenina Principle: only one thing is needed to disrupt the flow of founder package
Things necessary to acquire guns, germs, steel:
- calories = creation
- farmer-herder lifestyle
- food production \ both require all components for domestication
- animal domestication /
- disease resistance: humans to animal domestication
- stratified society
- government
- artisans ==> technology
- inventions
- surpluses
- codification
- laws
- writing....