Name: ______________________________________________ Period: ________
Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 2 (Conquest)
1. The New World and the Old World ______________________________.
2. What separates the winners from the losers is the ______________________________
itself—geography.
3. For two years a band of Spanish conquistadors has been traveling in search of gold and
______________________________.
4. By the 1530s, the Inca Empire was ______________________________.
5. He [Pizarro] spent much of his childhood here, working as a
______________________________ in the fields nearby.
6. Looking back thousands of years, he [Diamond] argues that
______________________________ gave some cultures an enormous head start.
7. Crucially, they [farm animals] provided ______________________________ power.
8. The horses that seemed so exotic to the Incas, had already been used in Spain for
______________________________ years.
9. People who had never seen horses before would have been absolutely
______________________________ watching this.
10. Atahualpa wanted the Spaniards to come to Cajamarca and enter into a
______________________________.
11. To survive, the Spaniards needed to keep up with the latest in weapons
______________________________.
12. Because Europe was geographically close to the Fertile Crescent, Europeans inherited this
______________________________ technology.
13. It [the rapier] was the sword of choice for any aspiring ______________________________.
14. Pizarro sends a party of his best horsemen into the heart of the Inca
______________________________.
15. The Spaniards spent the night before in extreme ______________________________.
16. He [Cortes] conquered the country by ______________________________ the Aztec leader
and exploiting the ensuing chaos.
17. The spread of writing was helped enormously by the invention of paper, ink, and
______________________________.
18. For Diamond, the answer lies in the shape of the ______________________________.
19. At almost every turn of the drama, ______________________________ was titled in favor
of Europeans.
20. When Atahualpa and his men enter Cajamarca, the Spaniards are waiting,
______________________________ from view.
21. Atahualpa has never seen a ______________________________ before; he doesn’t know
what to do with it.
22. As soon as they were able to do it, the Spaniards went after the
______________________________.
23. They produce vaccines here against the world’s deadliest ____________________________.
24. The first small pox epidemic in the New World swept through Central America and reached
the ______________________________.
25. During the __________________________________ infectious diseases swept through
Europe and claimed millions of lives.
26. There is no significant exchange of germs between ______________________________ and
people.
27. He [Atahualpa] learned to speak Spanish and played ______________________________
with his captors.
28. He [Atahualpa] was garroted to ______________________________.
29. By virtue of their ______________________________ location in history, they were the first
people to acquire guns, germs, and steel.
30. European guns, germs, and steel were ______________________________ the world.