Why, according to Jared Diamond, was it that Spain conquered the new world and not the inhabitants of the new world conquering Spain?
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The Europeans were from a continent that geographical advantages that enabled its people to progress and develop things like guns, germs and steel. Much of this was the result of having domesticated large animals to pull plows and other farm machinery. The natives in the new world did not have such tools or weapons or immunities to the diseases that the Europeans brought with them. They also did not have large ocean going ships.
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