[And again, credit given to semites is actually due to the Sumerians. It was developed in the Fertile Crescent. The printing press spread books quickly and accurately. (!) The Spaniards had access to Cortes’ account of his campaign in Mexico, to copy his successful tactics, while the Incas had no such access to the past. On this subject, Mr Diamond went out of his way to try and rob Europe of this credit.] Metal technology developed in the Fertile Crescent, and because Europe was nearby, it inherited the technology. [Not only did the Spaniards have superior weapons technology, but they benefitted from Inca superstition lowering their morale. Steel: Toledo had some of the best swords in the world, while the Inca were still making bronze tools. The harquebus, which the Incas had nothing to rival, ‘was shock and awe 1532 style.’ The Incas’ god Vira Kocha was a god of thunder, and they thought the harquebusiers were the incarnation of Vira Kocha. (!) The Spaniards were armed with some of the best weapons in the world. These were not ordinary horses, these were Spanish horses, big warhorses, trained to get in amongst men. (!) The Spaniards had masterful control of horses, allowing them to ride down Incas, who had no such animals. In this instance, he considers Francisco Pizzaro’s campaign in Peru. (!) Jared Diamond was interested in why certain peoples were able to conquer others. 'Why did conquer Native Americans, Australians and Africans, instead of vice versa? An evolutionary biologist offers a compelling explanation that environmental factors are mostly responsible.' - Guns, Germs and Steel blurb, Jared Diamond A liberal who does not believe it had anything to do with WHITE SUPREMACY. I took some notes and later rufuted this loser’s points one at a time-for the book I’m writing on Fascism. I have not read the book, but when a television documentary aired, I was appalled at the liberal propaganda masquerading as history. I just read that Guns, Germs and Steel is currently the #3 best-seller in the non-fiction paperback category, and felt I had to speak out. I’ve set it here because it deals with racial science, and this category evidently has more readers than the other 2. I invite any moderator to reclassify it, especially if a thread of it has already been created. This one could be literature, could be revisionism. I always have difficulty determining which category to classify articles in. But the Africans could now benefit from European medical technology without going through the Middle Ages.įirst a forum disclaimer.
If he was intellectually honest, he would have pointed out because of the advanced European trade networks the Black Death killed a third of the European population and suggested that in Europe trade generating technology out ran medical technology. He dosen't point out it is European medicine. Then he shows the problems allegedly caused by European urbanization being solved by European medicine. Who is going to feed the non-ag specialists in the cities? Urbanization was not FORCED on the Africans by the Europeans, it was made POSSIBLE by Europeans. If you are hunters/gathers or just above that level, urban centers are impossible. The fact of the matter is that a people can only have urban areas if there is an efficient agricultural sector to support them. He implied the Africans chose to be rural as part of a cognisant plan. He indicated the problem in Africa was disease due to the growing urbanization. The Cape area had a lot of Whites because no large numbers of Africans could live there. Since the Africans were in high population density in the tropics, it was difficult for the Whites to colonize with our people. No agriculture means no large supply of food which means little population density. The fact is the Whites moved into areas that almost no Africans could live because the Africans had developed no agriculture that would work in these areas. This one concerned the "invasion" of Africa.ĭiamond indicated Whites were stopped in tropical Africa because their agriculture wouldn't work there.