Guns, Germs, And Steel

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mportance of societies that accepted this new way of gathering food. Those societies that managed to switch to growing crops were usually the ones who showed the most success than those societies that stayed hunter-gatherers or those who waited to change their lifestyles.
He compares these societies a lot in his book and that is because it is the backbone to his thesis. Allow us to first look at the hunter-gatherer society. In a hunter-gatherer society every human resource was put to work hunting for food to feed their small community. This kind of society did not promote organized countries, but rather small groups consisting usually of family. Because food was not readily available it did not allow people to come up with inventions, or adopt inventions by other places. Inventions such as new, improved weapons to hunt larger game. The scarcity of food affected birth rates, thus affecting population growth. Members of this society did not try to have babies back to back because it would be difficult for that baby to keep up and would slow the tribe down. These societies for this reason did not expand.
On the other spectrum, were societies that began to adopt crop planting. Crop planting was a major factor for som...