Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond

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After reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, the five main points are domestication of plants and animals, food production, government, innovation, and germs. The domestication of plants and animals helped determine a society's supply of food. First of all, there is the domestication of plants. Domesticated plants were used for food, clothing, and traction. There is about 200,000 wild plant species, but human only eat only a few thousands of those wild plant species, and on top of that, only a few hundred are even domesticated. Many wild plant species do not quality because the vast majority of wild plants are unsuitable for domestication: they have a woody structure, they are unable to produce edible food, and roots and leaves are also inedible. The Fertile Cresent, containing comparatively moist and fertile soil, had the olive, fig, and grape. These plants were among the easiest to cultivate out of all the wild fruit species. The Fertile Cresent was the center of food production in the world, the rise of agriculture, and one of the earliest places of independent domestication. It was the site of origin of many of the world's major crops and most of the major domesticated animals. Thoughout the world, there are only 14 species of big terrestrial mammals that were domesticated. For instance, the Fertile Cresent had four species: the goat, sheep, pig, and cow. These four species happened to be four out of the five major species of large domestic mammals. Domesticated animals were used for food, clothing, and transportation. The domestication of plants and animals held food supplies to maintain the food supplies, large sedentary societies, and technology. These things further progressed into food production, political organizations, ideas...

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...et directly from our pets and domestic animals, the animal pathogen evolves into a disease where it can get transmitted between humans and cause epidemics, whether the animal pathogen will potentially emerge as major murderers of humanity, and it involves humans being confined by these long-established outbreak of diseases. Despite the outbreak, humans of the past had their defensive response systems in their bodies. Now, humans have gotten to where advance technology can helped treat or eliminate harmful or deadly diseases. My critical analysis of the book is I do agree on these five main concepts because history unfolds differently in different areas. Ever since humans begun to use fire, human beings have been changing the ground they stand on, and as world history continues, you can find these five main points changing the aspects of life, power, and history.

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