1. According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world’s  “haves” from the “have nots”?

Guns, germs, and steel

2. Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less than modern Americans.Diamond has developed a theory about what has caused these huge discrepancies among different countries, and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give several examples from the film to support Diamond’s theory.

• Their quickness to learn
• they can go to any place and build a shelter in hours
• Diamond says he would be helpless without them
• they still find food and find plants to eat everyday, like people did 13,000 years ago

 3. For thousands of years, people have been cultivating crops. Describe the process used to domesticate crops and create plants that yielded bigger, tastier harvests.

As they kept growing crops the crops would get better to eat and they could grow more and feed more people.

4. According to Diamond, livestock also plays a significant role in a civilization’s ability to 

 become rich and powerful. How did the domestication of animals help people? Give several examples.

• Help people travel places
• farm
• shelter
• food
• clothes

5. List the animals that can be domesticated and where they can be found.

llamas found in south africa pigs, cows, buffalos, sheep found in asia

6. Looking at the list of animals and locations from question 5, discuss how Diamond’s theory about geographic luck applies here.

7. How did the movement of the early civilizations of the Fertile Crescent (Middle East) further support Diamond’s idea that geography played a key role in the success of a civilization?

This supported Diamond's idea because these people did not have the greatest resources when they first settled so they had to migrate to get better resources.

8. Do you agree with Jared Diamond when he says of a civilization's ability to gain power, 

 wealth, and strength, “…what’s far more important is the hand that people have been dealt, the raw materials they’ve had at their disposal.” Why or why not?

Yes because the materials and animals that they settle around will help them grow more food and produce more natural materials that can be used.