HOW CAN GEOGRAPHY EXPLAIN THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD BY GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond “Why did Pisarro and his men conquer the Incas and not the other way around?” 1. Who were the conquistadors? What was their background like? 2. What gave certain civilizations an advantage over others? 3. Compare and contrast farming in the old world and farming in the new? Why were animals so crucial? 4. Why were horses so important to the conquistadors? 5. How did the Incas view the appearance of the Spanish? 6. Why were the Spanish so skilled with weapons technology? 7. What did the sword symbolize to the conquistadors? 8. How did the Conquistadors ‘know” how to defeat the Inca? 9. How many men did the Incas have? The conquistadors? 10. How was geography tilted in favor of the Europeans? 11. What miscalculation did Atahualpa make? How did the meeting between Atalhuapa and the Spaniards go? 12. How did smallpox get to the Americas? 13. Why didn’t the Inca have their own native epidemics?

the conquistator whe the people that conquer united states:like for example spain,portugal,brithish .there where loking for gold for there kings

2.the spain had a table of classes like this:the poeple in spain had the a class :the best classs.second where the people that where born in the new spain.3rd class:people maried to and native4.native americans

3.the old farming was for slaves withs was hard on pillow thingies but now its beter becaause whe have factories and machines.

4.The conquistadors who sailed to the New World had grown up on ranches and farms. They had ridden horses since their youth, and brought their finest animals with them. ... Instead, they panicked and tried to flee, allowing the outnumbered conquistadors to run through them with great speed and efficiency.

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6.the spanish where skilled because they had guns in spain and they knew how to use it but the natives didint cuz for them there where new

7.The Sword and the Cross These two symbols are what constituted the strategies or tactics used by the Spaniards in invading the Philippines. It made the pacification of the natives easier. The cross symbolizes religion while the sword symbolizes force.

8.Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans.

9.Structure. The largest units in the Inca army were composed of 10,000 men, under the command of a Major General or Apusquin Rantin.

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12.the small pox came to the americas by the conquistadrs that had it and that was the thing that killed most of the native people

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