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7. So far in this book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, it is taking about the difference between chiefdoms and tribes. A tribe has a so called, "Big Man" while a chiefdom has a, you guessed it a chief! A so called, "Big Man" has no technical power, but can easily sway a population of people because their position is developed by popularity, not by inheriting it like in a chiefdom where being chief is past from father to son

Period 7 . So far in the book Guns, Germs, and Steel the author has informed me of prehistory, and all the way up to when the Spaniards started to over throw the Native Americans in South America, namely the Inca people. In between prehistory and when the Spaniards started to over throw the Native Americans it informs the reader about the Polynesian people and the Polynesian islands.

Period 7 . So far in the book Guns, Germs, and Steel the author has informed me of prehistory, and all the way up to when the Spaniards started to over throw the Native Americans in South America, namely the Inca people.

I am on page 45 in book guns germs and steel. So far the book has described the evolution of man from the earliest human ancestors we know of till the so called "Great Leap Forward". In between the first human ancestors and the "Great Leap Forward" are the Neanderthals, which despite popular belief weren't the unintelligent ape-like creatures depicted in cartoons, they were actually the first ones to bury their dead