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Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 2
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Before viewing the film, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 2. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. Answers are to be typed and written in complete sentences.
1. Describe the Spanish weaponry. Describe the Incan weaponry. Explain in detail 2 reasons why Diamond believes the Spanish weaponry had come to be so superior to that of the Inca?
2. Explain 3 ways in which horses were a significant advantage to the Spanish?
3. Name 3 aspects of the Incan war strategy against the Spanish that led to their battle loss and the capture of their leader?
4. Why were the Inca so susceptible to the germs carried to the New World by the Spanish?
5. What role did domesticated animals play in New World and Old World human diseases?
6. The Inca did not develop disease resistance from their alpacas. Why not?
7. What does Diamond refer to as Pizarro’s “secret weapon”?
8. The Inca did not possess/utilize written language? Why not?
9. How did written language directly benefit the Spanish in their fight against the Inca?
10. It is said that humans invent what is needed for their survival…that “necessity is the mother of invention”. What does this mean to you?