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Instructions: Use the documents provided below and your knowledge of World History to answer all parts of the question that follows. Your answers should always be in complete sentences.
“Everything Diamond does is motivated by an environmental determinism that takes the physical environment, including the climate, to be a determinant on human society. … His books do not merely sanitize a history of colonial violence; they are its disinfectant. They offer compelling and seemingly intuitive arguments that serve as the ‘ideology’ of an imperial capitalism…
In Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond argued that we should ignore histories of colonialism if we really want to understand ‘the Fates of Societies,’ (his subtitle for the book). We must focus on physical geography and on climate if we want to understand why the world is divided into rich and poor. Europe’s ability to subjugate and colonize Africa was merely an accident owing to ‘geography’…
Everything Diamond does is motivated by an environmental determinism that takes the physical environment, including the climate, to be a determinant on human society”
Source: “F**k Jared Diamond,” Capitalism Nature Socialism, David Correia, 2013
A. Identify the author’s primary interpretation of Diamond’s arguments in Guns, Germs and Steel.
B. Explain ONE historical example that would support Diamond’s primary claim in Guns, Germs and Steel.
C. Identify the author’s primary critique of Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel from the passage.
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