Main Idea: Chapter 18 takes another look at why Pizzaro's tiny army of Spaniards captured the Inca emperor and destroyed the Incas, who were the largest, richest, and most technologically advanced society in the Americas.
Details: Europe had more domesticated large animals. These animals supplied labor, meat, milk, hides, and more. The animals allows greater food production where agriculture existed, and provided surplus food production that was needed for there to specialists in a society. The horses, in particular, also made soldiers much more effective.
Details: Most importantly, Europe had more cultivated crops that were more nutritious and varied than what America had. The geography of Eurasia also allowed more rapid spread of ideas, foods,
