Analysis Of Guns, Germs, And Steel By Jared Diamond

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Many things lead up to specific events in our history. Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel enables the reader to understand the events leading up to Francisco Pizarro kidnapping and killing the Inca leader, Atahualpa, such as the lack of weapons that the Incans did not have. Diamond talked about what Atahualpa’s troops had to defend themselves when he wrote, “We easily forget that horses and rifles were originally unknown to Native Americans. They were brought by Europeans and proceeded to transform the societies of Indian tribes that acquired them. Thanks to their mastery of horses and rifles, the Plains Indians of North America, the Araucanian Indians of southern Chile, and the Pampas Indians of Argentina fought off invading whites