Human Geo 1/6 - we're back and watching Guns, Germs, and Steel

Today in Human Geo we discussed the fact that we will be watching a video called "Guns, Germs and Steel" and then having a 100 point test on it. We started watching it and took notes:
- goal to understand roots of global inequality
-won lots of awards
- quest began in Papua New Guinea
- Jared Diamond is a UCLA college professor who started as a biologist
- his real passion was studying birds (thats what brought him to New Guinea)
- Yali asked him: Why do you white men have so much cargo and us New Guineans so little?
- That question started Jared Diamonds quest.
- Colonials believe power is determined by race - white people genetically superior (basically the first white supremacists)

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