GGSEpisode3ViewingGuide

=Episode 3 of Guns, Germs, and Steel=

As you watch the episode, which explores African interactions with the theories in //Guns, Germs, and Steel//, please look for answers to these questions:
 * 1) What factors helped European colonists be successful in South Africa?
 * 2) Describe interactions between Zulus and voertrekkers (Europeans).
 * 3) What do vocabulary similarities tell us about African languages?
 * 4) How does Diamond explain the sudden failures encountered by European colonialists as they migrated north into Africa?
 * 5) What diseases acted in reverse to infect Europeans but not Africans?

Assignment: Submit answers to any 4 of these questions under the Discussion tab, above.

[|An overview of episode 3: Guns, Germs, and Steel].