Guns, Germs, and Steel

For the last couple of weeks we have been reading this big book called Guns, Germs and Steels. These new few question are for chapter 5.

1. Explain to the best of your ability how radiocarbon dating works, and what some of the problems inherent with this type of testing are (pages 94-96)?


Radiocarbon dating is a method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years.The technique of radiocarbon dating was discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949. The Radiocarbon dating method is, only useful for estimating the age of things that are thousands of years old, not millions or billions. Also, It does not work on rocks or thoroughly materialized fossils; it is only useful for preserved organic materials such as cloth, wood, and other non fossilized stuff.

2. What part of the world would you have wanted to live on if you were alive 1,000 years ago?

I would chose the Andes because i love Potatoes " I like potatoes=P" Llamas are cool, Ginnie pigs are cute, and I have a pig of a dog. Also, I'm like 1/10Th Inca.

Guns, Germs and Steel: Desecration of the Inca Empire

We waited as the foreign men came on large animals, and metal monsters. We were afraid, but for our king, our god, we stood firm. The man climbed up the stairs as he meet our king face to face. He presented our king Atahuallpa with a gift, I felt a small hope that these men were not here to hurt use. As i watched my eyes fixed on the man he reached toward the king, with a swift slap our king pushed the man's had away. I shifted my arrow toward the man who was now an intruder. No one was allowed to touch our king with out permission for a single touch he would lose all his godly powers. In rage he threw down the book and yelled at him to leave. We all stood there and waited as Atahullpa recovered from such a disgrace. A huge noise came rushing toward use, with no order we stood and waited for our king. The men in shiny cloths, and mettle monsters came rushing at use. One of our men shouted “protect the king!”. The only 400 hundred men we had rushed over and stood in front of Atahullpa. The huge animals plowed us into a mound of people dead and bleeding. I was thrown aside as the evil men grabbed our king, and rode off. I tried to stop them but with the my broken leg I couldn't go far. The once beautiful city was burned and in shambles. All our gold taken, and our leader, our king gone. I laid there for what seemed like hours when a few of the neighboring natives came and took me to there small village. I told them of what had happen to the missing king, and how he wouldn't last long with the devil men. The last of the remaining Incas that had escape and survived the fatal attack died of odd diseases the foreigners brought. None of out medicine could help; all you could do was wait for death. I slowly died too along with my people.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

What role did ‘geography’ play in the story of the Maori and the Moriori?

The Maori had a full advantage of the Morior because of sheer numbers and more advance tools. The Morior had left New Zealand (the main island) to a smaller island off the coast. Because of how small the island was they had less room to grow,hunt, and because of how much mountain terrain its harder to grow food. On the Main land the Moari had much more room to grow food and to make a bigger society. Just the geography factor affected how the Morior died in the end. Since they were so isolated from other people for such a long time they open every one that came by with open arms. When the Maori came they gave no mercy and killed the whole society.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: Neanderthal man vs Cro-Magnon man

For anyone who doesn't know In are Humanities class we are now reading the book Guns, Germs, and Steel. This book tells how humans cam to be how we are today. It describes the last 13,000 years since the last ice age. Its a great, informative, book about our worlds history.


For hundreds and thousands of year the Neanderthal man have lived without a major threat of any other human species. They were the dominant occupants of what is now Europe, until the Cro-Magnon man appeared on the earth and at the same point in time the Neanderthal disappeared. What has happen to these humans? Well I'll tell you what happen..........

Years after the great time of peace and the Neanderthal dominate most of the world a new human species appeared. They set up ground and made more highly advance tools and made better settlements. They lived separately for many years not coming in contact and living from afar, but this wouldn't last long for they did come in-contact and became major enemies. They be came enemies for many reasons such as disputes between family when there children and the Neanderthal children were playing together, and for territories.Both prepared for war for they new they both knew they couldn't share the world. All the men from both sides left there camps ready for battle. They met at the point were both of their territories meet. I was a brutal battle between the two evenly match groups. When all of a sudden a huge space ship came down and lifted all the Neanderthal to there ship. No one knows what happen to the Neanderthal, possible they all were used for evil experiments or were ship to there home world and were used as pets? All that escaped the evil space ship died out of starvation, leaving the whole Neanderthal race extinct.