Guns Germs & Steel

Miniseries

2005 · 3 episodes · 3h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Out of Eden

   11 Jul 2005 · 60 min

   Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea

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   2. Conquest

   11 Jul 2005 · 60 min

   On November 15th 1532, 168 Spanish conquistadors arrive in the holy city of Cajamarca, at the heart of the Inca Empire, in Peru. They are exhausted, outnumbered and terrified – ahead of them are camped 80,000 Inca troops and the entourage of the Emperor himself. Yet, within just 24 hours, more than 7,000 Inca warriors lie slaughtered; the Emperor languishes in chains; and the victorious Europeans begin a reign of colonial terror which will sweep through the entire American continent.

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   3. Into the Tropics

   10 Jul 2005 · 60 min

   So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world.