Guns, Germs, and Steel Book Report

The book I read is Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. The book was about how some civilization's were able to succeeded and why others are still using rocks and sticks. In the book is main augment for his thesis was comparing the islands of New Guinea and how they have not moved forward. He looked at how European had the means to expand so therefore gained huge advantages over other people. For example since they were able to tame the horse they did not need as many hunters and so people were able to farm and tame other animals like the pig. In doing so they were able to gain immunity form virus that can spread form animal to human. Unlike the people of New Guinea who lived in a jungle environment and aren't able to farm as much so they depend on hunting and don't have spare time like the Europeans did to invent or tame animals. Trough out the book he list examples like what would happen if the people of Africa tamed the wild zebra. The book was an enjoyable read and I recommend it to anyone who has taken an interest in the subject.