Outside Reading Post 16

For tonight's blog post I will comment on the video I viewed in my AP World History class, Guns, Germs, and Steel. The video was on the fall of the Inca empire in the 1500s C.E. The Incas were the most powerful of all the mesoamerican empires, and its empire spanned from the tip of South America, to the tip of modern day Chili. The Inca fell to Spanish Conquestadors, led by Pizarro, a retired war veteran. He lead a group of 126 men to the Americas, and was able to take down the most powerful empire of the land. How did they do this ? Well, according to Jared Diamond, the narrator of the video, he explains that do to the geographic luck of the Spanish Conquestadors, they had already mastered the creation of steel weaponry, they had guns called harcubuses, which were similar to a shot gun, and they also possessed germs that infected the Inca empire. I thought that this video was oddly interesting; it presented its material well and was straight to the point. I also enjoyed the acting of the Inca Empire and Spanish Conquestadors, it seemed very accurate and very informal.