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Colonial History
What is History?
Diamond in the Sky
Papua New Guinea
100
America became the United States of America when they became independent on this date:
What is July 4th, 1776
100
This Greek philosopher used history to really dig deep and investigate questions
Who is Socrates?
100
This is Diamond's theory that "answers" the question of development:
What is Geographic Luck?
100
Since sago is low in protein, people from PNG sometimes eat these creepy crawlers
What are spiders?
200
The Conquistadors helped Spain gain colonies all over this continent:
What is South America?
200
Step 4 of the historical method. Diamond goes back 13,000 years when everyone was "equal"
What is a chronology?
200
New Guineans refer to material goods brought in by westerners as this:
What is cargo?
300
According to the video, the Spanish consider Pizarro to be this:
What is a "great warrior?"
300
To look at the differences between the Inca and Conquistadors, Diamond researches the history of this in Spain:
What is military technology?
300
North-South travel prevented this from spreading in the Americas:
What is written language?
300
This animal was brought to New Guinea from Asia. It also helped Europeans build resistance to diseases that killed Native Americans:
What is the pig?