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What is Jared Diamond's theory about the roots of power and the winners vs. losers?
Geography and the shape of continents
Who led the band of Spanish conquistadors into South America in search of gold and glory?
Francisco Pizarro
Where did Francisco Pizarro grow up?
Trujillo
What inspired Jared Diamond to explore the roots of inequality in the modern world?
Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
What was the main factor that gave some cultures an enormous head start according to Jared Diamond?
Most productive crops and animals
What separated the winners from the losers according to Jared Diamond's theory?
Geography and natural resources
Which part of the world did agriculture first develop according to Jared Diamond?
Fertile Crescent in the Middle East
What did Francisco Pizarro and his men find evidence of as they traveled into South America?
A large native civilization
Where has most of Jared Diamond's fieldwork been done?
Papua New Guinea
Test your knowledge about the conquest of the New World by the Spaniards and the subsequent power balance between the old world and the new. Explore the reasons behind the uneven power dynamics and the European conquest of the globe in the centuries that followed.
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