Guns, Germs and Steel
Across
- 5. A country who lost its technological lead over backward Europe and suspended exploration due to local politics.
- 6. What varies enormously from society to society on the same continent and also over time within the same society?
- 8. On any continent, at any given time there are innovative___.
- 12. Then fertile Cresent and eastern Mediterranean societies had the misfortune to arise in an ecologically fragile environment, however, Northern and western Europe had good luck to live in a more robust environment and able to support intensive___?
- 14. How many differences between continents does Jared Diamond give when explaining human development?
- 16. Factors differ systematically from ____ to continent which leds to different technological development.
- 18. Another factor influencing diffusion which could lead to a build up of local domesticates and technology related to geographical location is___?
- 19. Once an inventor has discovered a use for a new technology, the next step is to persuade society to ___ it.
Down
- 1. Technologies would be acquired less and existing tecnologies would be lost if there wasn't ___?
- 2. If inventions spread more rapidly than they could be independently invented locally, how were complex inventions usually acquired?
- 3. A factor that affects positievely or negatively the rates of diffusion and migration or the spread of technology on a continent.It could be east-west or north-south?
- 4. A word to describe the food production leading to accumulation and being able to feed non-food producing specialists?
- 5. How does technology develop if it isn't by isloated heroic acts but finds it's uses after it's been developed?
- 7. Usual reasoning when technoligical differences exist and therefore the ideological differences is inferred.
- 8. The last factor is the ___ of a population. A larger population means more inventors, competing societies, adopt and and retain innovations.
- 9. The diference between continents is not because of the people but becasue of the ___?
- 10. China abandoned development of some innovations and technologies because of the potential affects to ___?
- 11. How would technology develop in large productive areas with large human populations with potential inventors and competing societies?
- 13. What medievil China lead the world in?
- 15. Adopting foreign ways and technology and intergrating them successfully into their own society.
- 17. Where the main flow of technology came from in the Middle Ages.