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.

Mini PEOPLE!

Attack of the little people! Be warned their live right under your nose, using all our things when were not looking. Now there starting to make there own cities. If you began to see things such as
1.Family items begging to disappear
2.A feeling that your being watched
3.Little people running around
OR
4.Mini starbucks around the corning of your living room floor

YOU'VE been infested!
They take all your things make mini booms, tie you up and throw you in the closet. Beware these little people are very dangerous!



I live in a very normal town, with very normal people, normal stores, and places. Nothing seems to go wrong or nothing very dramatic happens. But one day like any other day I woke up got ready for school , ate breakfast, and waited for the bus. A very normal day.

I was waiting for the bus at the very ordinary corner of the street when I thought I saw at the corner of my eye a little man walking toward the street. Stunned I stood there wondering “ did i see a little man? Wow I think I saw a mini little man walking on the street!” I turned stood there, just stood there wondering if I saw what I really thought I saw. I slowly turned around. Nothing there. “Ok so Im going crazy now, just great.”

Everything was going fine that week. Me, I was just relaxing like I always do after school on a friday. I begin to here noise from down stairs; I ignore it for a while, and just lay on my bed being lazy. I began to get irritated and ran down stairs to tell the person to shut up and stop making such a racket. I ran down to find no one was there. I walked around to see if any one was down stairs, but it was empty. I started to look for the source of the noise, walking closer and closer. I peered around the bend to find a huge mini construction of a city! “O no I've been spotted!!!!”

I run for the stairs, But they trapped me at the bottom with a huge barricade of knives they had got from the kitchen. Im being attacked, as they jump on me and tied me up with thousands of tiny ropes. I tried to brake free, but there were too many. They threw me into the closet and locked the door there i stayed for the rest of the day until, I was rescued by you, the FBI.
“So thats what happened?”

“Yup thats what happened.”

I begin to look a the corner of the room. Shocked I slowly stood up out of my chair.
“What's Wrong.”

I keep staring as the man turned around to see what I was staring at. There in the corner was a huge crowed of mini people holding the kitchen knifes for my house.

“WORLD DOMANATION!!!!!!”

Football?

“Come on boy we have to get there in time! WE must not be late.” They rode throw the cold night of Montana rushing threw the first signs of snow. They ran as fast as they could, running, dogging leaves and fallen branches on the cold ice floor. There in his arms he hold tightly to a brown rap package, as he glided threw the woods, his dog close behind him. “Were almost there boy just threw here.”

You could see a slim light get brighter and brighter. The closer they came the faster they ran toward the light. The house was now in view as they ran in a full on sprit, and burst thew the door. “Did I miss anything.”

“nope just started the Charges still have the ball, did you bring it?”

“Yup got miller light for each of us; GO CHARGERS!!!”

Forte

foret: your best skill