Sunday 19 September 2010

Guns, Germs, and Steel and Conquer!!

So I just watched three series of National Geographic Documentary...Yes, you heard it right. I just watched DOCUMENTARY. And No! I do not apologize for my bad taste and  in fact I shall stand true to my virtue by saying: "Man I love it!" Anyway, the documentaries that happened to be in my room was so happened to be found in pure chaos theory style by my brother who was so happened to be bored in a Bookstore during his supposedly awesome holiday, and was so happened to be this:


Guns, Germs, and Steel.
The best, if not the most awesome theory ever brought forward by mere mortals. Ofcourse the theory about how the lizard people are trying to rule the world by infiltrating the human realm by working under the strongest nation (Read: USA) as a president (Read: George Bush) in this middle earth has its merit too (Fact or Fiction?). But boy O boy! This is the real deal people. The documentaries answer simple question: "Why are the Conquistadors conquer the Cajamarca, instead of the Incan attacking Toledo?". The documentaries sums up the theory perfectly in 150 minutes whereas the book can't. Oh yeees, I do have the book. And I had been reading it for two years! two years! T W O ! TWO YEARS! To no avail. It is worded in such an inhuman style, that my petty brains can't comprehend what's happening. Well..that leads to the two years of reading without finishing...My page advancement is as slow as the lost Homo Erectus people moving out of Africa to Eurasia. You can't even imagine how slow it is! Well? Thank God for the DVD!

Back to the documentaries, the answer to above question is answered by rolling back the time to 13,000 B.C.  Where the first few settlement just stay in fertile crescent and they yada yada yada yada...GEOGRAPHY! There! I said the answer!! Since we don't wanna spend 2 years of awesomeness by reading a blog that review a documentary that you hardly know do we?! Back to earth, so the geography shape us into what we are today, the Spaniards are just better off because they are better equipped with more varieties of foods (Grains and barleys) and 10 out of 14 domestic animals. Therefore it leads them to better farming system and hence the abundant of foods, giving more time for other people to start tinkering with random stuffs, such as music, cultures, writing, and best of them all, weapons. Unlike the Incans who barely have anything to farm on and well, they do have corn. Though it cannot be stored for long time, and their only supply of protein is dog,


Aaaaaaaaaaawwww~

which is way toooooo cute to be killed and eaten; and some other random foods which include humongous spiders and other critters. So they have to limit their populations due to food shortage. Hence the Ataxalpa was captured by Francisco Pizzaro instead of the other way round. You dig? Well..there are loads other factors such as the settlement period of the people, but mostly, its geographical location that shaped us the way we are.

Actually..I don't actually intend to popularize this book or documentaries or theory by writing it here. The sole reason is that...This Guns, Germs, and Stell pretty much create a good start up for our first POW!! in this blog ever. *Drums rolling* It shall goes tooooooooooooo...Be continued on the next Post.

P.S: The lizard people was a Fact! Small groups of people in US actually believe that and I think about 12 people wrote lizard people during Bush second term presidential election.

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